Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems / Octavio Paz ; edited by Eliot Weinberger ; translations from the Spanish by G. Aroul [and others].

Author

Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998.

Publication

New York : New Directions, 1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Weinberger, Eliot
• Aroul, G.
• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Breslin, Denise
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• Murray Printing Company, printer.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

xii, 147 pages; 21 cm.

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; NDP574

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998 > Translations into English
• Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998
• 1900-1999
• Mexican poetry > 20th century
• Paz, Octavio, 1914 > Translations into English
• Mexican poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Translations.
• Dust jackets – New York (State) – New York – 1984.

Note

• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In (note)

• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' yellow cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Denise Breslin.
• bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Denise Breslin.

Contents

The bird -- Two bodies -- Poet's epitaph -- The street -- The hand of day opens -- Fable -- Native stone -- Object lesson -- In Uxmal -- Riprap -- The poet's works III, IV, VII, XI, XII, The blue bouquet -- Hurry -- Plain -- Capital -- Obsidian butterfly -- A poet -- Huastec lady -- Toward the poem -- Hymn among the ruins -- Is there no way out? The river -- Sun stone -- Dawn -- Here -- Landscape -- Certainty -- Touch -- Duration -- Last dawn -- Salamander -- Happiness in Herat -- Apparition -- In the Lodi gardens -- The other -- Vrindaban -- Village -- Daybreak -- Nightfall -- On reading John Cage -- Writing -- Concord -- Exclamation -- Wind from all compass points -- Madrigal -- With eyes closed -- Transit -- Maithuna -- The key of water -- Sunday on the island of Elephanta -- Blanco -- The grove -- Immemorial landscape -- Trowbridge street -- Objects and apparitions -- Return -- In the middle of this phrase -- The petrifying petrified -- San Ildefonso nocturne -- A draft of shadows -- Flame, speech -- Sight, touch -- Homage to Claudius Ptolemy -- Stars and cricket -- Wind and water and stone -- Epitaph for no stone -- This side.

Call Number

JFD 84-7429

ISBN

• 0811209032
• 9780811209038
• 0811208990
• 9780811208994

LCCN

84009856

OCLC

10777933

Author

Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998.

Title

Selected poems / Octavio Paz ; edited by Eliot Weinberger ; translations from the Spanish by G. Aroul [and others].

Imprint

New York : New Directions, 1984.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Directions paperbook ; NDP574

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 112

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1483 bound in publishers' yellow cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Denise Breslin. NN

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1484 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Denise Breslin. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1483, 22-1484 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Weinberger, Eliot, editor.

Aroul, G., translator.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Breslin, Denise, cover designer, bookjacket designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Murray Printing Company, printer.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-1483

Berg Coll 22-1484

JFD 84-7429