{"product_id":"piedra-de-sol-sunstone-9780811211956","title":"Piedra de Sol = Sunstone","description":"Presented in Eliot Weinberger's excellent new translation with the Spanish texts \u003cem\u003een face\u003c\/em\u003e, this is the 1957 poem \"that definitively established Paz as a major international figure\" (\u003cem\u003eSagetrieb\u003c\/em\u003e). Written as a single cyclical sentence (at the end of the poem the first six lines are written again), \u003cem\u003eSunstone\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour de force of momentum. It takes as its structural basis the circular Aztec calendar, which measured the synodic period of the planet Venus (584 days--the number of lines of \u003cem\u003eSunstone\u003c\/em\u003e). But, as The New Republic noted, \"this esoteric correlative design...does not circumscribe its subject. [It is] a lyrically discursive exploration of time and memory, of erotic love, or art and writing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Octavio Paz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.21h x 6.13w x 0.29d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811211956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaz, Octavio:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eOctavio Paz\u003c\/strong\u003e (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.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeinberger, Eliot:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eEliot Weinberger's\u003c\/strong\u003e books of literary essays include \u003cem\u003eKarmic Traces\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAn Elemental Thing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Ghosts of Birds\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAngels \u0026amp; Saints\u003c\/em\u003e. His political writings are collected in \u003cem\u003eWhat I Heard About Iraq\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWhat Happened Here: Bush Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e. The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, \u003cem\u003e19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei\u003c\/em\u003e, he is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao and the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. He was formerly the general editor of the series \u003cem\u003eCalligrams: Writings from and on China\u003c\/em\u003e and the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India. Among his many translations of Latin American poetry and prose are \u003cem\u003eThe Poems of Octavio Paz\u003c\/em\u003e, Paz's \u003cem\u003eIn Light of India\u003c\/em\u003e, Vicente Huidobro's \u003cem\u003eAltazor\u003c\/em\u003e, Xavier Villaurrutia's \u003cem\u003eNostalgia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003efor Death\u003c\/em\u003e, and Jorge Luis Borges' \u003cem\u003eSeven Nights\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSelected Non-Fictions\u003c\/em\u003e. He has been publishing with New Directions since 1975.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Octavio Paz \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47809117782173,"sku":"9780811211956","price":27.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_ba992b88-d48c-4f0d-852e-9958f9b7dfad.jpg?v=1775556713","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/piedra-de-sol-sunstone-9780811211956","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}