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Sunstone : Piedra de sol
- Title
- Sunstone : Piedra de sol / Octavio Paz ; translated by Eliot Weinberger.
- Author
- Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1991.
- 1957
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- Description
- 59 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Nobel laureate Octavio Paz's premier long poem Sunstone / Piedra de Sol is here printed 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), Sunstone 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 Sunstone). 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, of art and writing."
- Uniform Title
- Piedra de sol. English & Spanish
- Alternative Title
- Piedra de sol.
- Sunstone
- Piedra de sol
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Translations.
- Poetry.
- Dust jackets – New York (State) – New York – 1991.
- Note
- "A New Directions book" -- title page.
- "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
- Indexed In (note)
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
- Language (note)
- Parallel text in Spanish and English, translated from the Spanish.
- Binding (note)
- bound in publishers' beige cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Hermann Strohbach.
- Call Number
- Berg Coll 22-1485
- ISBN
- 0811211975
- 9780811211970
- 0811211959
- 9780811211956
- LCCN
- 91029993
- OCLC
- 24246401
- Author
- Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998, author.
- Title
- Sunstone : Piedra de sol / Octavio Paz ; translated by Eliot Weinberger.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1991.
- Copyright Date
- 1957
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Indexed In:
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 132
- Language
- Parallel text in Spanish and English, translated from the Spanish.
- Binding
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-1485 bound in publishers' beige cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Hermann Strohbach. NN
- Local Note
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-1485 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
- Added Author
- Weinberger, Eliot, translator.Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.Strohbach, Hermann (Designer), bookjacket designer.New Directions Publishing.New Directions Publishing, publisher.Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., 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 22-1485