A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems

Octavio Paz

ISBN 10: 0811207382 / ISBN 13: 9780811207386

Published by New Directions Books, New York (USA), 1979

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Premio Nobel de Literatura del año 1990. EXCELENTE ejemplar DEDICADO por el autor / DEDICATED by the author. Editado en tapa blanda, en muy buen estado de conservación. Edición, traducción y nota introductoria de Eliot Weinberger y traducciones de Elizabeth Bishops y Mark Strand. Edición bilingüe inglés / español. La primera sección de poemas, "Ladera este" 1969, refleja algunas de las experiencias de Paz como embajador de su país en la India (1962-68). Después de permanecer en Inglaterra, Francia y Estados Unidos, regresó a México en 1971, reaccionando a la expansión urbana y la violencia de la Ciudad de México con los cuatro largos poemas de desastre y rabia que, junto con poemas más cortos en tono más familiar, hacen "Vuelta" 1976). Una larga meditación sobre la infancia y adolescencia del poeta, "Pasado en claro" 1975 forma la tercera sección de este volumen y representa un alejamiento adicional de las imágenes surrealistas independientes que muchos asocian con Paz. Leves marcas de uso en las cubiertas, con una pequeña doblez en una esquina inferior de la cubierta posterior. Interior en muy buen estado. 186 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems
• Publisher: New Directions Books, New York (USA)
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 0811207382
• ISBN 13: 9780811207386
• Binding: Encuadernación de tapa blanda
• Condition: Excelente
• Signed: Dedicatoria autógrafa del auto

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Synopsis

A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems is the most recent collection of the work of Mexico's leading poet and essayist, Octavio Paz. The first section of poems, from Ladera este (East Slope, 1969), reflects some of Paz's experiences as his country's ambassador to India (1962-68). Following stays in England, France, and the United States, he returned to Mexico in 1971, reacting to the urban sprawl and violence of Mexico City with the four long poems of disaster and rage that, together with shorter poems more familiar in tone, make up Vuelta ("Return," 1976). A long meditation on the poet's childhood and adolescence, Pasado en claro ("A Draft of Shadows," 1975) forms the third section of this volume and represents a further departure from the self-contained surreal images many associate with Paz. This bilingual selection concludes with a sampling of his most recent lyrics, and the promise of further experimentation. Paz, winner in 1981 of both the Neustadt Prize and the Cervantes Award, stated in a recent interview: "When I am writing a poem, it is to make something, an object or organism that will be whole and living, something that will have a life independent of me," and throughout this book the poet's abiding concern for language as a living force is revealed. For Paz, poetry is a way of reinventing the self, and appropriately, the reflective. "A Draft of Shadows" concludes: "I am the shadow my words cast."

About the Author

Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City. He wrote many volumes of poetry, as well as a prolific body of remarkable works of nonfiction on subjects as varied as poetics, literary and art criticism, politics, culture, and Mexican history. He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1977, the Cervantes Prize in 1981, and the Neustadt Prize in 1982. He received the German Peace Prize for his political work, and finally, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.