The Poems of Octavio Paz [Paperback]

Readers will marvel at Pazs variety: haiku-like miniatures; the tempestuousbook-length poem Sunstone; fast-moving prose poems; abstract odes; extended descriptions of places in Mexico, India, Afghanistan, and Japan.The question of who or what writes a poem, which agency creates whichpieces, even if none of the players is exactly automatic, takes us a long wayinto Pazs work, handsomely represented in this new collection.The living conscience of his age. ? ? ? ??Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning,bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prizelaureate