Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz is incontestably Latin America's foremost
living poet. The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz is a landmark
bilingual gathering of all the poetry he has published in book form
since 1952, the year of his premier long poem, Sunstone (Piedra de
Sol)--here translated anew by Eliot Weinberger--made its appearance.
This is followed by the complete texts of Days and Occasions (Días
Hábiles), Homage and Desecrations (Homenaje y Profanaciones),
Salamander (Salamandra), Solo for Two Voices (Solo a Dos Voces),
East Slope (Ladera Este), Toward the Beginning (Hacza el
Comienzo), Blanco, Topoems (Topoemas), Return (Vuelta), A
Draft of Shadows (Pasado en Claro), Airborn (Hijos del Aire), and
Paz's most recent collection, A Tree Within (Árbol Adentro).
With additional translations by Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn,
Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, John Frederick Nims, and Charles
Tomlinson.