El Arco y La Lira : El Poema. La Revelacion Poetica. Poesia e Historia [i.e. The Bow and the Lyre]
Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1956. First edition, first printing. Light green french-fold printed wraps (paperback). 287pp. 8.5" x 6" Sunned spine, light shelf wear and gatherings largely unopened, overall a near fine copy. Item #236079
PAZ'S POETICS
Limited to just 3,000 copies in its first edition, Octavio Paz here offers one of his most ambitious and enduring essays on the nature of poetry. Divided into three interlocking sections—on the poem, the poetic revelation, and the relation between poetry and history—Nobel Prize-winning Paz elaborates a poetics of tension, presence, and consecration. Winner of the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, this text remains indispensable for understanding modern Hispanic poetics and the poetic consciousness in Latin America.
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