Sunstone - Piedra de Sol
Nobel laureate Octavio Paz's premier long poem Sunstone/Piedra de Sol is here presented as a separate volume, with beautiful illustrations from an eighteenth-century treatise on the Mexican calendar.\ Presented in Eliot Weinberger's excellent new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this is the 1957 poem "that definitively established Paz as a major international figure" (Sagetrieb). Written as a single cyclical sentence (at the end of the poem the first six lines are written again),...
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Nobel laureate Octavio Paz's premier long poem Sunstone/Piedra de Sol is here presented as a separate volume, with beautiful illustrations from an eighteenth-century treatise on the Mexican calendar.
\ The New Republic“Weinberger has done a heroic job of bringing Paz into a lucid and quick-moving idiom.”\ \ \ \ \ The New York Times Book Review“Sunstone provides the master plot of Mr. Paz's poetry and his vision of history.”\ \
