Sunstone/Piedra De Sol

by Octavio Paz

Paperback, 1991

Call number

811 PAZ

Collection

Publication

New Directions (1991), 60 pages

Description

Presented in Eliot Weinberger's excellent new translation with the Spanish textsen face, this is the 1957 poem "that definitively established Paz as a major international figure" (Sagetrieb). Written as a single cyclical sentence (at the end of the poem the first six lines are written again),Sunstone is a tour de force of momentum. It takes as its structural basis the circular Aztec calendar, which measured the synodic period of the planet Venus (584 days--the number of lines ofSunstone). But, as The New Republic noted, "this esoteric correlative design...does not circumscribe its subject. [It is] a lyrically discursive exploration of time and memory, of erotic love, or art and writing."

Pages

60

ISBN

0811211959 / 9780811211956

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