A tale of two gardens
Subtitle: poems from India, 1952-1995
By: Octavio Paz ; edited and translated by Eliot Weinberger ; with additional translations by Elizabeth Bishop ... [et al.].
Contributors: Weinberger, Eliot.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Paz, Octavio, 1914-  -- Translations into English.; India -- Poetry.
Description: A Tale of Two Gardens collects the poetry from over 40 years of Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz's many and various commitments to India - as Mexican ambassador, student of Indian philosophy, and above all, as poet. Despite having written many acclaimed non-fiction books on the region, he has always considered those writings to be footnotes to the poems.

From the long work "Mutra," written in 1952 and accompanied here by a new commentary by the author, to the celebrated poems of East Slope, and his recent adaptations from the classical Sanskrit, Paz scripts his India with a mixture of deft sensualism and hands-on politics.