Octavio Paz: Homage to the Poet
Publisher: KOSMOS
Published: 1980
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover, and paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 978-0-916426-03-0
Description: Octavio Paz, born in Mexico City in 1914 and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, was one of our great poets and essayists. He is paid tribute here by a score of poets, writers, friends, and scholars from the United States, Europe, and Mexico, including Carlos Fuentes, John Cage, Yves Bonnefoy, Claude Esteban, Kenneth Rexroth, Julio Ortega, and others. Paz died in 1998. Published in paperback as KOSMOS 5-6: Homage to Octavio Paz. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 80-82167. 248 pages.
Table of contents: title: 1.  The Poetry and Thought of Octavio Paz: An Introduction by Kosrof Chantikian; title: 2.  Nocturne of San Idefonso (trans. from Vuelta by José L. Varela-Ibarra); title: 3.  Rappaccini's Daughter by Octavio Paz (trans. by Harry Haskell); title: 4.  Three Poems (trans. from Salamandra by Robert Lima); title: 5. Notes on the "Nocturne of San Ildefonso" by José L. Varela-Ibarra; title: 6.  A Conversation with Octavio Paz by Edwin Honig; title: 7.  Poetry as Insurrection by Claude Esteban; title: 8.  White on Blanco for O.P. by John Cage; title: 9.  In the Lure of the Threshold by Yves Bonnefoy; title: 10.  Homenaje to Octavio Paz by Carlos Fuentes; title: 11.  A Tribute to Octavio Paz (Notes on Children of the Mire) by Allen W. Phillips; title: 12.  Notes on Paz by Julio Ortega; title: 13.  Octavio Paz  — Poetry as Coded Silence by Jaime Alazraki; title: 14.   A Tribute by Kenneth Rexroth; title: 15.  The Inside of the Avocado by Jack Hirschman; title: 16.  The Poem by Homero Aridjis; title: 17.  Octavio Paz: An Interview by Anthony  Rudolf; title: 18.  Towards the Other Shore: The Latest Stage in the Poetry of Octavio Paz by Manuel Durán; title: 19.  A "Meditation" on Blanco by Margaret Sayers Peden; title: 20.  Reverberation of the Stone by Ricardo Gullón; title: 21.  The Passages of Memory: Reading a Poem by Octavio Paz by José  Miguel Oviedo; title: 22.  Hearing Octavio Paz Read by Bernard Horn; title: 23.  Works of Octavio Paz by Hugo J. Verani