Essays discuss East and West, Columbus, Christian missionaries in China, Tibetan government, Kampuchea under Pol Pot, and modern poets

Poems, in both English translation and the original Spanish, deal with fate, nature, language, intimacy, love, friendship, and the senses

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A bilingual edition of the short prose poetry written by Mexico's most distinguished living poet in 1949-50

Poems, in both English translation and the original Spanish, deal with fate, nature, language, intimacy, love, friendship, and the senses.

Product Description: Book by Paz, Octavio

"American Poetry Since 1950" is a new map of the territory, an array of known and unknown contemporary classics. It is full of strange texts and startling procedures, histories and natural histories, high lyricism and extended meditations-- extraordinary works that challenge our notions of what a poem ought to be. Since Whitman and Dickinson, most of the major poetry in the United States has been written against the literary establishments and prevailing canons of taste, and often far from the cultural centers. This is the first anthology in many years to gather the work from this continuing tradition of innovators and outsiders, presenting poets and poems that are still excluded from the academic collections. Opening with the last poems of the Modernist masters Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and H.D., the book follows through four generations of writers who have been the primary figures of the new poetries and poetics since 1950. With a historical afterword, complete bibliographies, and generous selections from each of the thirty-five poets, this anthology is the only available introduction to the poets connected with such groups and movements as the Objectivists, the Beats, Black Mountain, the New York School, the San Francisco Renaissance, and ethnopoetics.

The Nobel laureate offers a fascinating look at the people and landscapes of India, based on his years as an attache at the Mexican embassay and as Mexico's ambassador to India, offering a lyrical, evocative collection of essays on Indian history, culture, art, politics, language, and philosophy.

Gathers poems about India by the Nobel Prize winning poet and former Mexican ambassador to India (view table of contents)

A third and last volume in an important centenary edition of the collected works in English of one of the century's most respected literary figures offers more than 150 of Borges's nonfiction works, in wonderful new translations. (view table of contents)

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Collects twenty-four of Eliot Weinberger's writings describing his personal travels to the Atacama Desert, Iceland, and Hong Kong.

A unique collaboration by the late Mexican poet Octavio Paz and his wife, artist Marie JosT Pax, features a collection of twelve poems, accompanied by twelve pieces of art, appearing in a bilingual collection. (view table of contents)

Provides translations of more than two hundred-fifty poems by over forty poets, from early anonymous poetry through the T'ang and Sung dynasties. (view table of contents)

A visual celebration of Mexican crafts pairs full-color photography with essays by leading art historians, interviews with and profiles of top craftspeople, and tributes by leading writers, in a volume that includes coverage of Mexican ceramics, textiles, weavings, tinwork, lacquerwork, and more. 12,000 first printing.

An English-language exploration of the history and social culture of tequila features an A-to-Z illustrated listing of common and rare brands, articles on the history of tequila making from the Aztecs to the present, an exploration of the drink's appearance in the movies and literature, and a range of food and beverage recipes. 30,000 first printing.