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<h1>Mexican Poetry</h1>
<h2 class="book-subtitle">An Anthology</h2>
<small><em>by</em> <a
href="https://groveatlantic.com/author/octavio-paz/">Octavio Paz</a></small>
<small>Edited by Octavio Paz</small> <small>Translated from Spanish
by<b> Samuel Beckett</b></small><b> </b><small>Preface by C.M.
Bowra</small>
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<li> <strong>Imprint</strong> Grove Paperback </li>
<li><strong>Page Count</strong> 224 </li>
<li><strong>Publication Date</strong> October 01, 1985 </li>
<li><strong>ISBN-13</strong> 978-0-8021-5186-5 </li>
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<p>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
<i>Caballera</i> and two years later, at the age of
nineteen, published the poetry collection <i>Wild Moon</i>.
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 <i>Taller</i> 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 <i>The Labyrinth of
Solitude</i> (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 <i>The Monkey
Grammarian</i> and <i>East Slope</i>. 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.</p>
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<h1>About The Book</h1>
<p>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.</p>
<p> 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.</p>
<p> This is a major collection of Mexican poetry from its beginnings
until the modern period, compiled and translated by two giants of
world literature.</p>
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