| On Poets and Others Contributor(s): Schmidt, Michael (Translator), Paz, Octavio (Author) |
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ISBN: 1628723742 ISBN-13: 9781628723748 Publisher: Arcade Publishing OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Collections | European - General - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 809 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Nobel Prize-winning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Bu uel to Alexander Solzhenitsyn; and from Charles Baudelaire to Jean-Paul Sartre, Andr Breton, and Henri Michaux. Paz writes, "I believe that a writer's attitude to language should be that of a lover: fidelity and, at the same time, a lack of respect for the beloved object. Veneration and transgression." When this original thinker meets these writers, each essay is an adventure of the mind. |