The Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of
Paz's poetry to span his entire writing career from his first published
poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem. This landmark
bilingual edition contains many poems that have never been translated
into English before, plus new translations based on Paz's final
revisions. Assiduously edited by Eliot Weinberger--who has been
translating Paz for over forty years--The Poems of Octavio Paz also
includes translations by the poet-luminaries Elizabeth Bishop, Paul
Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, and Charles Tomlinson.
Readers will also find Weinberger's capsule biography of Paz, as well as
notes on many poems in Paz's own words, taken from various interviews he
gave throughout his long and singular life.