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- Author: Octavio Paz
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Pages: 59
- ISBN-10: 0811211959
- ISBN-13: 9780811211956
- Format: 15.6 x 20.9 x 0.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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.
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- Author: Octavio Paz
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Pages: 59
- ISBN-10: 0811211959
- ISBN-13: 9780811211956
- Format: 15.6 x 20.9 x 0.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
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.
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