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a tale of two gardens (translation)
[Paperback - 1997]
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Category: Literature
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Publisher: New Directions Usa | ISBN: 9780811213493 | Pages: 111
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A Tale of Two Gardens collects the poetry from over 40 years of Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz s many and various commitments to India?as Mexican ambassador, student of Indian philosophy, and above all, as poet.

Despite having written many acclaimed non-fiction books on the region, he has always considered those writings to be footnotes to the poems. From the long work "Mutra," written in 1952 and accompanied here by a new commentary by the author, to the celebrated poems of East Slope, and his recent adaptations from the classical Sanskrit, Paz scripts his India with a mixture of deft sensualism and hands-on politics.

Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City. He wrote many volumes of poetry, as well as a prolific body of remarkable works of nonfiction on subjects as varied as poetics, literary and art criticism, politics, culture, and Mexican history. He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1977, the Cervantes Prize in 1981, and the Neustadt Prize in 1982. He received the German Peace Prize for his political work, and finally, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, editor, and translator. He lives in New York City.

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