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Title: Sunstone/Piedra De Sol
Condition: New
ISBN-10: 0811211959
EAN: 9780811211956
ISBN: 9780811211956
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 28/02/1992
Description: 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."
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 211mm
Item Length: 155mm
Item Width: 8mm
Item Weight: 93g
Author: Octavio Paz
Translator: Eliot Weinberger
Contributor: Eliot Weinberger (Translated by)
Genre: Literary Criticism
Release Year: 1992

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