A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems

A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems

Author: Octavio Paz

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780811207386

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A collection of poems by Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz, presented in Spanish and in English.


Configurations

Configurations

Author: Octavio Paz

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780811201506

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Octavio Paz, the 1990 Nobel Laureate, has won distinction as an anthropologist, philosopher and critic of art and literature. But it is as a poet that he is most celebrated. Configurations was his first major collection to be published in this country, and includes in their entirety Sun Stone (1957) and Blanco (1967). Paz himself translated many of the poems from the Spanish. Some distinguished contributors to this bilingual edition include, among others, Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, and Muriel Rukeyser.


A Tale of Two Gardens

A Tale of Two Gardens

Author: Octavio Paz

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780811213493

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Octavio Paz, 1990 Nobel Prize winner, declares that his many nonfiction books on the subject of India are only footnotes to his India poems. Those collected here cover more than 40 years of Paz's many and various commitments to Indiaas Mexican ambassador, student of Indian philosophy, and, above all, poet. "Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century's turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West".PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.


A Draft of Light

A Draft of Light

Author: John Hollander

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2008-04-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0307269116

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A glorious new collection from one of our most distinguished poets. Here are poems that explore the ways in which ordinary objects open doors to the more hidden, subconscious truths of our inner selves: a bird of “countless colors” calls to mind “the echo . . . / of an inner event / From my forgotten past”; a subway bee sting conjures up quick unlikely visits by the muses—a momentary awareness that is “as much of a / Gift from those nine sisters as / Is ever given.” Other poems lay bare the imperfect nature of our memories: reality altered by our inevitably less accurate but perhaps “truer” recall of past events (“memory— / As full of random holes as any / Uncleaned window is of spots / Of blur and dimming—begins at once / To interfere”). Still others examine the dramatic changes in perspective we undergo over the course of a lifetime as, in the poem “When We Went Up,” John Hollander describes the varied responses he has to climbing the same mountain at different points in his life. In all of the poems Hollander illuminates the fluid nature of physical and emotional experience, the connections between the simple things we encounter every day and the ways in which the meaning we attribute to them shapes our lives. Like the harmonious coming together of bandstand instruments on a summer afternoon, he writes, most of what we come to know in the world is “A dying moment / Of lastingness thenceforth / Ever not to be.” Throughout this thought-provoking collection, Hollander reveals the ways in which we are constantly creating unique worlds of our own, “a draft of light” of our own making, and how these worlds, in turn, continually shape our most basic identities and truest selves.


Aguila O Sol?

Aguila O Sol?

Author: Octavio Paz

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780811206235

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A bilingual edition of the short prose poetry written by Mexico's most distinguished living poet in 1949-50.


The Big Smoke

The Big Smoke

Author: Adrian Matejka

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-05-28

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1101613084

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A suite of poems examining the myth and history of the legendary prizefighter Jack Johnson—a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award—from the author, with Youssef Daoudi, of the graphic novel Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century The legendary Jack Johnson (1878–1946) was a true American creation. The child of emancipated slaves, he overcame the violent segregationism of Jim Crow, challenging white boxers—and white America—to become the first African-American heavyweight world champion. The Big Smoke, Adrian Matejka’s third work of poetry, follows the fighter’s journey from poverty to the most coveted title in sports through the multi-layered voices of Johnson and the white women he brazenly loved. Matejka’s book is part historic reclamation and part interrogation of Johnson’s complicated legacy, one that often misremembers the magnetic man behind the myth.


Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

Author: Eliot Weinberger

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780811226202

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A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print