1990
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4.14
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180
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In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literatures, Paz offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it “modern,” and what it may become. Translated by Helen Lane.
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Author
Octavio Paz
Author · 36 books
Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature ("for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity.")
