Piedra de Sol / Sunstone [Spanish...

Author: Octavio Paz

Title: Piedra de Sol / Sunstone [Spanish...

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 60

Release Date: 1991-10-17

Details: Nobel laureate Octavio Paz's premier long poem Sunstone/Piedra de Sol is here presented as a separate volume, with beautiful illustrations from an eighteenth-century treatise on the Mexican calendar. Presented in Eliot Weinberger's excellent new translation with the Spanish texts en 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 of Sunstone). 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." Black-and-white illustrations

EAN: 9780811211956

Package Dimensions: Height: 8.3 Inches, Length: 6.1 Inches, Weight: 0.28 Pounds, Width: 0.3 Inches