Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was a Mexican poet and winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. Besides writing and teaching, Paz also served as a Mexican diplomat in the early 1940s with assignments in ...

Journal of Spanish Studies: Twentieth Century, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Winter, 1976), pp. 165-178 (14 pages) A study of several short poems by Octavio Paz attempts to show the functioning of humor as achieved ...

Octavio Paz, edited and trans. from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger. New Directions, $39.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2043-9 Paz (1914–1998), who won the Nobel Prize in 1990, dominated Mexican letters ...

Weaving their bodies in a loose circle around a line of candles, the young actors appeared to be performing some ancient mystic rite. One lifted a small human statue with tender reverence. Another ...

The complete set of four heliogravures in colours, on Richard de Bas paper, the full sheets, with text by Octavio Paz, bound in two volumes (as issued), all contained in the original paper-covered ...

A quarter century after his death, the cultural legacy of Mexican literary giant Octavio Paz is going on display at the poet's former home in Mexico City.

Octavio Paz, Author, Eliot Weinberger, Editor, Elizabeth Bishop, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $37.5 (669p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1037-9 Paz, a cosmopolitan poet, is also intensely ...