Nobel laureate Octavio Paz\'s premier long poem Sunstone is now a handsome illustrated paperbook.
It is] a lyrically discursive exploration of time and memory, of erotic love, or art and writing..
But, as The New Republic noted, this esoteric correlative design...does not circumscribe its subject.
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).
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.
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).
Includes beautiful illustrations from an 18th-century treatise on the Mexican calendar.
Presented here in a new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this is the 1957 poem that helped established Paz as a major international figure.
Nobel laureate Octavio Paz\'s premier long poem Sunstone is now a handsome illustrated paperbook
