Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to achieve a unity of their polarities. The Siren and the Seashell is a collection of Paz's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general. The first five poets he treats are Latin American: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, José...

In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz "an intellectual literary one-man band" for his ability to write incisively and with dazzling originality about a wide range of subjects. This collection of his essays is divided into three parts. Part 1 sets forth his credo as an artist and poet, steeped in his knowledge of world literature and Mexican art and history and buttressed by readings of writers...

Octavio Paz claims in this essential work that the two painters who had the greatest influence on the twentieth century were Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. If that conjunction surprises at first, Paz makes a convincing case with his analysis and by contrasting the two artists. “I have linked their two names,” he writes, “because it seems to me that each of them has in his own way succeeded in defining our age: the former by what he affirms;...

Dos poemas aéreos y resplandecientes de un gran escritor. Two airy, resplendent poems by a famous writer.

Poems, in both English translation and the original Spanish, deal with fate, nature, language, intimacy, love, friendship, and the senses. This landmark bilingual edition gathers all the poetry the 1990 Nobel Laureate has published in book form since 1957, the year his long poem Sunstone, here translated anew, made its first appearance. Included are the complete texts of Days and Occasions, Solo for Two Voices, A Drift of Shadows, East Slope, Toward...

Cuántica Activa Audiolibros se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro en español: "El arte de la seducción, Guía rápida: "Robert Greene nació en California, Estados Unidos. Posee un posgrado en estudios clásicos. Trabajó como editor de revistas, traductor y articulista. Es autor de: Las 48 leyes del poder y Las 33 estrategias de la guerra, que se han traducido a varios idiomas y además de haber alcanzado ventas extraordinarias, continúan...