“Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century’s turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West."— Publishers Weekly



Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz is incontestably Latin America's foremost living poet. The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz is a landmark bilingual gathering of all the poetry he has published in book form since 1952, the year of his premier long poem, Sunstone ( Piedra de Sol)—here translated anew by Eliot Weinberger—made its appearance. This is followed by the complete texts of Days and Occasions ( Días Hábiles), Homage and Desecrations ( Homenaje y Profanaciones), Salamander ( Salamandra), Solo for Two Voices ( Solo a Dos Voces), East Slope ( Ladera Este), Toward the Beginning ( Hacza el Comienzo), Blanco, Topoems ( Topoemas), Return ( Vuelta), A Draft of Shadows ( Pasado en Claro), Airborn ( Hijos del Aire), and Paz's most recent collection, A Tree Within ( Árbol Adentro).

With additional translations by Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, John Frederick Nims, and Charles Tomlinson.