(P/B) EARLY POEMS 1935-55

Παρουσίαση

"The growth of the work of Octavio Paz," writes Muriel Rukeyser in her preface to this bilingual selection of the Mexican poet's Early Poems, "has made clear to an audience in many languages what was evident from the beginning... he is a great poet, a world-poet whom we need. The poems here speak-as does all his work since-deeply, erotically, with grave and passionate involvement." In this, a much revised edition of the earlier Selected Poems (Indiana University Press, 1963), Miss Rukeyser has joined to her own translations those of Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, and William Carlos Williams, while many of the readings embody Paz's own revisions of the original texts. The poems were chosen from eight separate collections, among them Condicion de nube ("Phase of Cloud"), Semillas para un himno ("Seeds for a Psalm"), Piedras sueltas ("Riprap"), and Estacion violenta ("Violent Season"). (from the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Foreword
Acknowledgment
Preface
PROLOGO/PROLOGUE
from CONDICION DE NUBE
El pajaro/The bird
Los novios/Engaged
Dos cuerpos/Two bodies
Vida entrevista/Live interval
Misterio/Mystery
Epitafio para un poeta/Poet's epitaph
from GIRASOL
Agua nocturna/Water night
Relampago en reposo/Lightning at rest
Mes alla del amor/Beyond love
from SEMILLAS PARA UN HIMNO
El dia abre la mano/(Untitled)
Al alba busca su nombre lo naciente/(Untitled)
Fibula/Fable
Una mujer de movimientos de rio/(Untitled)
A la espanola el dia entra pisando fuerte/(Untitled)
Dia/Day
Piedra nativa/Native stone
Refranes/Proverbs
Como la marejada verde de marzo en el campo/(Untitled)
Semillas para un himno/Seeds for a Psalm
from PIEDRAS SUELTAS
Leccion de cosas/Object lesson
En Uxmal/In Uxmal
Piedras sueltas/Riprap
from PUERTA CONDENADA
Ni el cielo ni la tierra/Nor heaven nor earth
Las palabras/Words
Escritura/Writing
Razones para morir/Reasons for dying
Seven p.m./Seven p.m.
La calle/The street
Elegia iterrumpida/Interrupted elegy
from JAGUILA O SOL
Hacia el poema/Toward the poem
from A LA ORILLA DEL MUNDO
Virgen/Virgin
El prisionero/The prisoner
from ESTACION VIOLENTA
Himno entre ruinas/Hymn among the ruins
Mascaras del alba/Masks of dawn
Fuente/Fountain
Repaso nocturno/The middle of the night
Mutra (Fragmento)/Mutra (Fragment)
No hay salida/The endless instant
El rio/The river
El cantaro roto/The broken waterjar