Selected poems
By: Octavio Paz ; edited by Eliot Weinberger ; translations from the Spanish by G. Aroul ... [et al.].
Contributors: Weinberger, Eliot.; Aroul, G.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; spa
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Paz, Octavio, 1914-  -- Translations into English
Table of contents: title: 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.