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Monday, March 31, 2014

Octavio Paz: 100th anniversary of his birth

Born 100 years ago today.
Poems:

  1.  Motion
  2. Proem
  3. In Her Splendor Islanded (translated by Muriel Rukeyser)
Favorite lines from "In Her Splendor Islanded":
Here is the moment burning and returned 
Drowning itself in itself and never consumed

Biographies and Criticisms:

  1. Poetry Foundation
  2. Poets.org
  3. Nobel Prize.org 

 
 

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