It does sound good, Mark. From New Directions (it published a lot of the Paz books before)?
Doug
On 2012-11-04, at 8:39 AM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I just received The Poems of Octavio Paz, edited and almost entirely translated by Eliot Weinberger (with a handful of translations by Muriel Rukeyser, Paul Blackburn, Elizabeth Bishop, Denise Levertov and Charles Tomlinson). A huge selection of one of Latin America's most important poets. The translations are lucid and fresh, eloquent and unassuming--no star turns at the expense of the original. And it's bilingual. The product of decades. I can't recommend it more highly.
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