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Piedra de Sol = Sunstone

Piedra de Sol = Sunstone

Paz, Octavio
Weinberger, Eliot

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $13.95

ISBN10: 0811211959
ISBN13: 9780811211956
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Oct 17 1991
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.13 Depth: 8.21
Language: 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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