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Horrid horrid translation
Sor Juana was a seventeenth century Mexican nun who was also a notable poet. Unfortunately, this particular translation (by Trueblood) is quite execrable. Translating poetry is dicey business at best and is perhaps best handled with a literal translation and occasional footnotes. Trueblood imposed rhymes where there were none in the original and a rather jangling rhythm more appropriate for twentieth-century Madison Avenue than seventeenth-century Mexico City. His introduction also seems to distort some of Sor Juana's attitudes to meet his own ideology. Thankfully, the book also includes the poems in the original Spanish. ... Read more

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Convergence of Topics
I read this book recently uponthe death of Octavio Paz. The mans mind was incredible and he was able to elucidate onsuch disparate themes as philosophy,religion and history. What is incredible is that he manages totie these diverse subjects into a major topic, Mexican Art. The Europeaninfluences on the major Mexican artists is indelible and Paz shows how onecannot exist without it's predecessor. He takes shots at such Mexican iconsasDiego Rivera and Frida Kahlo for their seemingly contradictory views.This book is not easy reading and requires a base of knowledge prior toreading. One area of interest is his first person accounts with famouspeople. Paz does not pull any punches and is a straight shooter. Theinsights he provides here are excellent. The expressions he provides areeloquent and given with great detail. A trully brilliant thinker thatoffers his thoughts for all to share and enjoy. This book makes youquestion your knowledge and makes you take the leap into a newunderstanding of what you thought you knew. Like all provacative writerswho influence, you come out the better, as a result of his insights. ... Read more

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Born in Mexico City in 1914, writer, poet, and diplomat Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, eight years before his death in 1998. The Writing in the Stars explores Paz’s life and ideas by establishing a dialogue between the structure and recurring images of his major poems and the ideas of Carl Jung.

Although other literary critics have pointed to Jungian concepts in Paz, a comprehensive study on the subject has yet to be undertaken.Rodney Williamson takes up this challenge, adopting a Jungian perspective to explore successive phases of Paz’s poetry. Williamson illustrates how archetypal images infuse Paz’s early poetry and his surrealist period and shows how the circular structure of Paz’s longer poems, such as ‘Piedra de sol’ and ‘Blanco,’ are based on the Eastern sacred circle or mandala, a major archetype of psychic wholeness in Jung. He argues that a grasp of the psychological importance of Jung’s archetypes is essential to understanding the various syntheses of creative truth and existence sought by Paz at different defining moments of his career as a poet. The Writing in the Stars will prove fascinating to anyone interested in Latin-American literature, Jungian psychology, or critical theory.

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This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. on August 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2086 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Una pasión a varias voces.(Los puentes de la traducción. Octavio Paz y la poesía francesa)(Reseña de libro)
Author: Elsa Cross
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2004
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 6Issue: 68Page: 85(3)

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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on February 1, 2001. The length of the article is 2342 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Octavio Paz.(Review) (book review)
Author: Stephen Schwartz
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2001
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 19Issue: 6Page: 68

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A beautiful collaboration between husband and wife. His poems to her collages, call and response from Mexico's greatest poet."Marie José's constructions and boxes are three-dimensional objects transfigured by her imagination and her sensibility into visual ideas, mental enigmas, bearers of bizarre and disturbing images, or of ironic perceptions. More than things to be seen, they are wings for traveling, sails for wandering and wondering, mirrors through which to cross." —Octavio PazFigures & Figurations, one of the last books completed by the late Mexican poet Octavio Paz before his death in 1998, is a collaborative effort with his wife of thirty years, the artist Marie José Paz. In response to ten of her collage-constructions, he wrote ten new short poems; she in turn created two new artworks in response to two of his earlier poems. Twelve poems, twelve pieces of art reproduced in full color, in a book first published in Spanish in 1999 and now appearing in a bilingual edition.

In addition to the poems and collage-constructions, Figures & Figurations includes an essay by Octavio Paz on Marie José Paz's work, "The Whitecaps of Time," in which he relates how her friendship with Joseph Cornell became a stimulus for her assemblages and how she was further spurred on by other friends, such as Roman Jakobson and Elizabeth Bishop. "These objects sometime surprise us," he writes, "sometimes make us laugh or dream. Signs that invite us to a motionless voyage of fantasy, bridges to the infinitely small or galactic distances, windows that open on to nowhere. The art of Marie José is a dialogue between here and there." ... Read more