First US edition of this collection of poetry-centric essays by the renowned Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet — with warm inscription by translator Margaret Sayers Peden.
Fine in very good plus jacket.
Price: $150.00
"Octavio Paz is a living incarnation of those tensions in modern poetry between human commitment and aesthetic concern" — THE HUDSON REVIEW
Paz, "known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry," combines the two proficiencies in this thoughtful work of literary criticism. THE SIREN AND THE SEASHELL includes essays on individual poets such as Rubén Darío, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (who Paz would go on to write an entire book about), e.e. cummings, Antonio Machado, Robert Frost and more. In further essays, Paz offers his considerable reflections on "the poetry of solitude and communion and the literature of Latin America."
First printing. Austin: University of Texas Press, (1976). 8.25'' x 5.75'' Original light blue cloth, lettered in black to spine. In original unclipped ($9.95) white pictorial jacket. Dark grey endpapers. With black and white illustrations. vii, 188 pages. Signed and inscribed by Peden on title page: "Fernando, I sign this also in spirit of Lysander Kemp, who was a delightful man, a good friend, and fine editor and translator. / With warm thanks, Petch Peden / December 1997." Jacket with light edgewear, spots of foxing and soil. Book with light toning to margins of endpapers. Interior crisp and clean.
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