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.