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  Mexican Poetry


    An Anthology

/by/ Octavio Paz <https://groveatlantic.com/author/octavio-paz/> Edited
by Octavio Paz Translated from Spanish by*Samuel Beckett***Preface by
C.M. Bowra

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  * *Imprint* Grove Paperback
  * *Page Count* 224
  * *Publication Date* October 01, 1985
  * *ISBN-13* 978-0-8021-5186-5
  * *Dimensions* 5.5" x 8.25"
  * *US List Price* $14.95

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    The Nobel Prize winning Octavio Paz was born in 1914, near Mexico
    City. His family was forced into exile, which they served in the
    United States, after the assassination of Mexican president Zapata,
    in 1919. Paz published his first collection of poems in 1931
    entitled /Caballera/ and two years later, at the age of nineteen,
    published the poetry collection /Wild Moon/. In 1937, at the height
    of the Spanish Civil War, Paz traveled to Spain in order to rally
    sympathy for the republican side. Upon returning, and being deeply
    affected by what he witnessed in Spain, Paz co-founded the literary
    journal /Taller/ in 1938. In 1943 Paz received a Guggenheim
    Fellowship and he moved to the United States in order to study at
    the University of California, where he stayed for two years. In 1945
    Paz became a Mexican diplomat and moved to Paris, where he would
    write his masterpiece /The Labyrinth of Solitude/ (1950), a
    collection of nine essays regarding the Mexican identity. In 1962
    Paz was appointed as the Mexican diplomat to India, and it was in
    India that Paz wrote the works /The Monkey Grammarian/ and /East
    Slope/. During the 1968 Olympic Games, held in Mexico City, Paz
    resigned from his diplomatic position after government forces took
    up arms against pro-democracy student protesters. From 1970 to 1974
    Paz lectured at Harvard University, where he was made an honorary
    doctor in 1980. In 1977, Paz was awarded the prestigious Jerusalem
    Prize for literature and in 1982 he was awarded the Neustadt Prize.
    It was in 1990 that Paz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
    for “impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by
    sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity.” Paz died of cancer
    in 1998.

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  About The Book

The renowned Mexican poet and critic Octavio Paz assembled this
important anthology—the first of its kind in English translation—with a
keen sense of what is both representative and universal in Mexican
poetry. His informative introduction places the thirty-five selected
poets within a literary and historical context that spans four centuries
(1521-1910). This accomplished translation is the work of the young
Samuel Beckett, just out of Trinity College, who had been awarded a
grant by UNESCO to collaborate with Paz on the project.

Notable among the writers who appear in this anthology are Bernardo de
Balbuena (1561-1627), a master of the baroque period who celebrated the
exuberant atmosphere and wealth of the New World; Juan Ru”z de Alarc”n
(1581?-1639), who became one of Spain’s great playwrights; and Sor Juana
In’s de la Cruz (1651-1695), the beautiful nun whose passionate lyric
poetry, written within her convent’s walls, has made her, three hundred
years later, a proto-feminist literary heroine.

This is a major collection of Mexican poetry from its beginnings until
the modern period, compiled and translated by two giants of world
literature.

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