| A Tale of Two Gardens Contributor(s): Paz, Octavio (Author), Weinberger, Eliot (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0811213498 ISBN-13: 9780811213493 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $8.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1997 Annotation: Octavio Paz, 1990 Nobel Prize winner, declares that his many nonfiction books on the subject of India are only footnotes to his India poems. Those collected here cover more than 40 years of Paz's many and various commitments to Indiaas Mexican ambassador, student of Indian philosophy, and, above all, poet. "Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century's turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West".PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 861 |
| LCCN: 96038111 |
| Series: New Directions Bibelot |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 4.8" W x 7" (0.21 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Despite having written many acclaimed non-fiction books on the region, he has always considered those writings to be footnotes to the poems. From the long work Mutra, written in 1952 and accompanied here by a new commentary by the author, to the celebrated poems of East Slope, and his recent adaptations from the classical Sanskrit, Paz scripts his India with a mixture of deft sensualism and hands-on politics. |
Contributor Bio(s): Paz, Octavio: - Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City. He wrote many volumes of poetry, as well as a prolific body of remarkable works of nonfiction on subjects as varied as poetics, literary and art criticism, politics, culture, and Mexican history. He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1977, the Cervantes Prize in 1981, and the Neustadt Prize in 1982. He received the German Peace Prize for his political work, and finally, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.Weinberger, Eliot: - Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, editor, and translator. He lives in New York City. |