num_pages: 686
description: When Octavio Paz died, Mexico lost a tribe of writers. He was a surrealist disciple of Andre Breton, an admiring imitator of Alexander Pope; now a radical experimentalist, now an autobiographer and confessional writer. European by inclination, he brought unanticipated tonalities into Spanish.
language: English
title: The Collected Poems 1957-1987
titlecomplete: The Collected Poems 1957-1987
genres: Fiction, Poetry, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Anthologies, Literature, Latin American Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, 20th Century
ratings_count: 3052
publisher: Carcanet Press