A Tree Within
by Octavio Paz
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There is a lot of beautiful surrealist imagery to be found in these otherwise dull, repetitive poems. Worth reading just to find a few of the gem lines, like "I speak for the longed-for encounter with that unexpected form which the unknown is made flesh, and revealed to each of us" or smaller images likes "reality/ is always at the edge of the pit."
The finest, most delicious book of poetry I have ever read- bar none. Bewitching. Beguiling. Zenlike.
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Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City, Mexico on March 31, 1914. In 1938, he became one of the founders of the journal, Taller. In 1943, he travelled to the United States on a Guggenheim Fellowship where he became immersed in Anglo-American Modernist poetry. He entered the Mexican diplomatic service in 1945 and was sent to France then India. In show more 1968, he resigned from the diplomatic service in protest against the government's suppression of the student demonstrations during the Olympic Games in Mexico. He was a poet and an essayist. His works include The Labyrinth of Solitude, The Grammarian Monkey, East Slope, and The Other Mexico. He received numerous awards including the Cervantes award in 1981, the American Neustadt Prize in 1982, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990. He also worked as an editor and publisher. He founded two magazines dedicated to the arts and politics: Plural and Vuelta. He died of cancer on April 19, 1998. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Tree Within
- Original title
- Árbol adentro
- Original publication date
- 1987
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- 5 — English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish
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