A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems

by Paz, Octavio

• ISBN13: 9780811207386
• ISBN10: 0811207382
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1980-02-17
• Publisher: New Directions

Summary

This book is a bilingual collection of Paz's poems. Throughout this book the poet's abiding concern for language as a living force is revealed.

Table of Contents

Editor's note	1	(2)
from LADERA ESTE (``EAST SLOPE'')
El otro/The other	2	(1)
Efectos del bautismo/The effects of baptism	2	(2)
Golden Lotuses (3)/Golden lotuses (3)	4	(1)
Madrugada al raso/Daybreak	4	(2)
Himachal Pradesh (1)/Himachal Pradesh (1)	6	(2)
La exclamacion/Exclamation	8	(1)
Projimo lejano/Distant neighbor	8	(2)
Escritura/Writing	10	(1)
Concorde/Concord	10	(2)
Soltura/Release	12	(1)
Concierto en el jardin/Concert in the garden	12	(2)
Sunyata/Sunyata	14	(2)
Un anochecer/Nightfall	16	(2)
En los jardines de los Lodi/In the Lodi gardens	18	(1)
Madrigal/Madrigal	18	(2)
La llave de agua/The key of water	20	(2)
Eje/Axis	22	(2)
Con los ojos cerrados/With eyes closed	24	(2)
Domingo en la isla de Elefanta/Sunday on the island of Elephanta	26	(4)
Cuento de dos jardines/A tale of two gardens	30	(16)
from VUELTA (``RETURN'')
El fuego de cada dia/The everyday fire	46	(2)
Por la calle de Galeana/Along Galeana Street	48	(2)
La arboleda/The grove	50	(4)
Paisaje inmemorial/Immemorial landscape	54	(4)
Vuelta/Return	58	(10)
Piel/sonido del mundo/``The skin of the world, the sound of the world''	68	(4)
A la mitad de esta frase.../In the middle of this phrase	72	(8)
Piedra blanca y negra/Black and white stone	80	(2)
Objetos y aparicones/Objects & apparitions	82	(4)
Trowbridge Street/Trowbridge Street	86	(6)
Petrificada petrificante/The petrifying petrified	92	(10)
Nocturno de San Ildefonso/San Ildefonso nocturne	102	(54)
NEW AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS
Homenaje a Claudio Ptolomeo/Homage to Claudius Ptolemy	156	(1)
Estrellas y grillo/Stars and cricket	156	(2)
Primero de enero/January First	158	(2)
En defensa de Pirron/In defense of Pyrrho	160	(2)
La vista, el tacto/Sight, touch	162	(2)
Entre irse y quedarse/Between leaving and staying	164	(2)
Un despertar/Waking	166	(2)
Pequena variacion/Small variation	168	(2)
Viento, agua, piedra/Wind and water and stone	170	(2)
La llama, el habla/Flame, speech	172	(2)
Ejercicio preparatorio/Preparatory exercise	174	(6)
Epitafio sobre ninguna piedra/Epitaph for no stone	180	(2)
Este lado/This side	182	(2)
Notes	184