Spanish Practices
Edwin Williamson, 18 May 1989
Collected Poems 1957-1987
by Octavio Paz, edited by Eliot Weinberger.
Carcanet, 669 pp., £25, October 1988,0 85635 787 1 Show More
by Octavio Paz, edited by Eliot Weinberger.
Carcanet, 669 pp., £25, October 1988,
Sor Juana: Her Life and her World
by Octavio Paz, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Faber, 547 pp., £27.50, November 1988,0 571 15399 2 Show More
by Octavio Paz, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Faber, 547 pp., £27.50, November 1988,
ASor Juana Anthology
translated by Alan Trueblood, with a foreword by Octavio Paz.
Harvard, 248 pp., £23.95, September 1988,0 674 82120 3 Show More
translated by Alan Trueblood, with a foreword by Octavio Paz.
Harvard, 248 pp., £23.95, September 1988,
“... when one considers what a boon it is to have the mature poetry of Paz available in English. With Sor Juana one is invited to explore new avenues of the labyrinth of solitude, to use the metaphor invented by Paz to describe the conflicts of identity suffered by Mexicans. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a Mexican ... ”