A Study Guide for Octavio Paz's "Sunstone"


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A Study Guide for Octavio Paz's "Sunstone," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.







Piedra de Sol


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Nobel laureate Octavio Paz's premier long poem "Sunstone" is now a handsome illustrated paperbook. Presented here in a new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this is the 1957 poem that helped established Paz as a major international figure. Includes beautiful illustrations from an 18th-century treatise on the Mexican calendar.




A Tree Within


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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 MirĂ³, 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.




The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987


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Contains almost 200 collected poems in both Spanish and English.




Mexican Short Stories / Cuentos mexicanos


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This collection offers a rich sampling of the finest Mexican prose published from 1843 to 1918. Nine short stories appear in their original Spanish text, with expert English translations on each facing page.




World Poetry


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An anthology of the best poetry ever written contains more than sixteen hundred poems, spanning more than four millennia, from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century




Karmic Traces, 1993-1999


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A collection of twenty-four essays by American author Eliot Weinberger, in which he discusses his personal travels around the world, and other topics.




Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei


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A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print




Essays on Mexican Art


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Essays discuss pre-Columbian art, the influence of European art on the Mexican muralists, and the abstract art of Tamayo