A Tree Within

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New Directions Publishing, 1988 - 164 páginas
A Tree Within (Arbol Adentro), the first collection of new poems by the great Mexican author Octavio Paz since his Return (Vuelta) of 1975, was originally published as the final section of The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987. Among these later poems is a series of works dedicated to such artists as Miró, Balthus, Duchamp, Rauschenberg, Tapies, Alechinsky, Monet, and Matta, as well as a number of epigrammatic and Chinese-like lyrics. Two remarkable long poems --"I Speak of the City," a Whitmanesque apocalyptic evocation of the contemporary urban nightmare, and "Letter of Testimony," a meditation on love and death--are emblematic of the mature poet in a prophetic voice.
 

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Entre lo que veo y digo
8
Al vuelo 1 On the wing 1
12
Insomne Insomniac
18
Viento agua piedra Wind water stone
24
La mano abierta The open hand 33306
36
Aunque es de noche Although it is night
44
Imprólogo Impreface 50 556
56
Un sol más vivo A sun more alive
64
líneas para Antoni Tàpies 10 lines for Antoni Tàpies
96
Paraje Place
102
Árbol adentro A tree within
114
Canción desentonada A song out of tune
124
Como quien oye llover As one listens to the rain
134
Carta de creencia Letter of testimony
140
Authors Notes
157
Derechos de autor

Visto y dicho Seen and said
90

Términos y frases comunes

Acerca del autor (1988)

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. Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, editor, and translator. He lives in New York City.

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