| Description |
111 pages ; 18 cm |
| Contents |
Mutra -- The balcony -- The tomb of Amir Khusru -- The religious fig -- The mausoleum of Humayun -- In the Lodi gardens -- The day in Udaipur -- The other -- Perpetua encarnada -- On the roads of Mysore -- Ootacamund -- The effects of baptism -- Cochin -- Madurai -- Happiness in Herat -- The Tanghi-Garu Pass -- Sharj Tepe -- Apparition -- Village -- Himachal Pradesh (1) -- The face and the wind -- Tomb of the poet -- Daybreak -- Nightfall -- Exclamation -- Distant neighbor -- Vrindaban -- Release -- Concert in the garden -- Writing -- Concord -- Sunyata -- Youth -- Kavya: 10 epigrams from the Sanskrit -- Kavya: Apparition on the riverbank -- Kavya: First meeting -- Kavya: Confidence: confusion -- Kavya: The seal -- Kavya: The oblique invitation -- Kavya: The pedagogue -- Kavya: Without fanfare -- Kavya: Rhetoric -- Kavya: Posterity -- Kavya: The tradition -- Wind from all compass points -- Madrigal -- With eyes closed -- Passage -- With you |
| Summary |
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. |
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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. |
| Subject |
Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998 -- Translations into English.
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India -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Weinberger, Eliot.
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| ISBN |
0811213498 alkaline paper |
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9780811213493 alkaline paper |
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