The Poems of Octavio Paz Octavio Paz, edited and trans. from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger. New Directions, $39.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2043-9.

Mexico City (AFP) – A quarter century after his death, the cultural legacy of Mexican literary giant Octavio Paz is going on display at the poet's former home in Mexico City. The museum, which ...

The Mexican poet and Nobel laureate, who was born on this day, March 31, in 1914, spent six years in Delhi that deeply impacted him and his work.

The poetry of Octavio Paz subsumed the political, the historical, the personal, the emotional, the social and the mystical and carved a luminous new poetics on the tablet of time.

Octavio Paz (1914-1998), the Nobel Prize-winning poet, critic, philosopher, and diplomat, spent 14 years in newly-independent India from 1952-1968, the last six of those years as ambassador from ...