The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz

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.