Solar Poems [Paperback]

A book of cosmological surrealism in the tradition of Octavio Paz,Solar Poemsis the first English translation of a single volume of poems by Mexico’s famed poet-diplomat Homero Aridjis, exploring political consciousness as well as visionary psychological themes. President emeritus of International PEN, the prolific poet is Mexico’s ambassador to UNESCO.Poemas solares(Solar Poems) was published in 2005.

TranslatorGeorge McWhirterwon the Commonwealth Poetry Prize forCatalan Poems, the F.R. Scott Prize forSelected Poems of José Emilio Pacheco, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for his novelCage. He is Vancouver’s first Poet Laureate.

Homero Aridjis is a profoundly ecological poet who has put his fame and time where his principles are, fighting to save the monarch butterflies that winter by the billions in the mountains of his native Michoacán, the sea turtle that lays her eggs on Caribbean beaches, and the gray whale that calves in the lagoons of Baja California. Aridjis writes to the point, with an open eye and a sense of humor . . . --John Oliver Simon,Poetry Flash

A book of cosmological surrealism in the tradition of Octavio Paz,Solar Poemsis the first English translation of a single volume of poems by Mexico’s famed poet-diplomat Homero Aridjis, exploring political consciousness as well as visionary psychological themes. President emeritus of International PEN, the prolific poet is Mexico’s ambassador to UNESCO.Poemas solares(Solar Poems) was published in 2005.

TranslatorGeorge McWhirterwon the Commonwealth Poetry Prize forCatalan Poems, the F.R. Scott Prize forSelected Poems of José Emilio Pacheco, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for his novelCage. He is Vancouver’l-