By Octavio Paz
ISBN-10: 0811211959
ISBN-13: 9780811211956
Nobel laureate Octavio Paz's most efficient lengthy poem Sunstone/Piedra de Sol is right here provided as a separate quantity, with attractive illustrations from an eighteenth-century treatise at the Mexican calendar.Presented in Eliot Weinberger's first-class new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this can be the 1957 poem "that definitively proven Paz as a tremendous overseas determine" (Sagetrieb). Written as a unmarried cyclical sentence (at the top of the poem the 1st six strains are written again), Sunstone is a journey de strength of momentum. It takes as its structural foundation the round Aztec calendar, which measured the synodic interval of the planet Venus (584 days—the variety of traces of Sunstone). yet, because the New Republic famous, "this esoteric correlative design...does now not circumscribe its topic. [It is] a lyrically discursive exploration of time and reminiscence, of erotic love, or artwork and writing." Black-and-white illustrations
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