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Books boeken octavio directions publishing corporation paperback februari 1980: A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems is the most recent collection of the work of Mexicos leading poet and essayist Octavio Paz.
The first section of poems from Ladera este East Slope 1969 reflects some of Pazs experiences as his countrys ambassador to India 1962-68.
Following stays in England France and the United States he returned to Mexico in 1971 reacting to the urban sprawl and violence of Mexico City with the four long poems of disaster and rage that together with shorter poems more familiar in tone make up Vuelta Return 1976.
A long meditation on the poets childhood and adolescence Pasado en claro A Draft of Shadows 1975 forms the third section of this volume and represents a further departure from the self-contained surreal images many associate with Paz.
This bilingual selection concludes with a sampling of his most recent lyrics and the promise of further experimentation.
Paz winner in 1981 of both the Neustadt Prize and the Cervantes Award stated in a recent interview.
When I am writing a poem it is to make something an object or organism that will be whole and living something that will have a life independent of me and throughout this book the poets abiding concern for language as a living force is revealed.
For Paz poetry is a way of reinventing the self and appropriately the reflective.
A Draft of Shadows concludes.
I am the shadow my words cast.
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