Wed 11/12 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
The Queen of Swords Tour: Jazmina Barrera and Megan McDowell on Elena GarroAuthor Jazmina Barrera, on tour from Mexico City, and translator Megan ...
"Octavio Paz claims in this ... work that the two painters who had the greatest influence on the twentieth century were Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. If that conjunction surprises at first, Paz...
Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and...
The renowned Mexican poet and critic Octavio Paz assembled this important anthology--the first of its kind in English translation--with a keen sense of what is both representative and universal in...
Este ensayo trata de mostrar la estructura unificadora existente tras los cambios en el estilo y en el lenguaje de la poesĆa de Paz. Mediante el uso de la metĆ”fora musical de modos, el autor descubre...
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)...
From the author of Witches, a gripping, kaleidoscopic tale of two women in 1940s Mexicoāone whose daughter has just been kidnapped and another who has just adopted a little girlWhen the kidnapping of...
A deluxe photographic celebration of the unsung hero of guitar musicāthe effects pedalāfeaturing interviews with 100 musicians including Peter Frampton, Joe Perry, Jack White, and Courtney Barnett...
"This is the most comprehensive book Iāve ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language."āJorge...
Briefly describes the modern development of Latin American literature and evaluates the contributions of Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel...
Poetry by Xavier Villaurrutia, one of the few openly homo-sexual Latin American writers of his time, presented here with a book-length critical study by Nobel Laureate, Octavio Paz. --Copper Canyon...
This collection of the work of Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888ā1935) is an essential introduction to the work of one of the most original European poets of the twentieth century. It includes...
The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty--from a...
Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto BolaƱo, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 comprises all of her middle to late...
- Published for the first time ever, the Lanfranchi Collection is an important testament to the impact of the Spatialism and Nuclear Art movements in post WWII ItalyFollowing WWII in Italy, the art...