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.
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Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century's turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West. -- Publishers Weekly
Posterity
Apparition On The Riverbank
The Tradition
The Seal
Altar [custodia]
Apparition [aparicion]
The Arms Of Summer [las Armas Del Verano]
Axis [eje]
The Balcony
Concert In The Garden (vina And Mridangam)
Concord [concorde]
The Day In Udaipur [el Dia En Udaipur]
Daybreak [madrugada Al Raso]
Distant Neighbor [projimo Lejano]
The Effects Of Baptism [efectos Del Bautismo]
Exclamation [el Exclamacion]
The Face And The Wind [la Cara Y El Viento]
Happiness In Herat
Himachal Pradesh: 1
In The Lodi Gardens [en Los Jardines De Los Lodi]
The Key Of Water [la Llave De Agua]
Madrigal
Madurai
Maithuna
The Mausoleum Of Humayun [el Mausoleo De Humayun]
Mutra
Nightfall [un Anochecer]
On The Roads Of Mysore [por Los Caminos De Mysore]
Ooctacamund [utacamud]
The Other [el Otro]
Passage
Perpetua Encarnada
Release [solutra]
The Religious Fig
Sharj Tepe
Sun On A Blanket [sol Sombre Una Manta]
Sunday On The Island Of Elephanta
Sunyata
A Tale Of Two Gardens [cuento De Dos Jardins]
The Tanghi-garu Pass
The Tomb Of Amir Khusru
Tomb Of The Poet
Village
Vrindaban
Wind From All Compass Points
With Eyes Closed [con Los Ojos Cerrados]
With You [contigo]
Writing [escritura]
Youth
First Meeting
The Oblique Invitation
The Pedagogue
Without Fanfare
Rhetoric
Confidence: Confusion
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Several beautiful and evocative poems included in A Tale of Two Gardens are from his East Slope, already well known to his admirers. Mr. Paz also contrasts Mexico with India, and this in part is the theme of the title poem . . . where he evokes a romantic abandoned garden he had loved as a child and the garden he and his wife, Marie-José, had in Delhi. -- The New York Times Book Review, Raleigh Trevelyan
Posterity
Apparition On The Riverbank
The Tradition
The Seal
Altar [custodia]
Apparition [aparicion]
The Arms Of Summer [las Armas Del Verano]
Axis [eje]
The Balcony
Concert In The Garden (vina And Mridangam)
Concord [concorde]
The Day In Udaipur [el Dia En Udaipur]
Daybreak [madrugada Al Raso]
Distant Neighbor [projimo Lejano]
The Effects Of Baptism [efectos Del Bautismo]
Exclamation [el Exclamacion]
The Face And The Wind [la Cara Y El Viento]
Happiness In Herat
Himachal Pradesh: 1
In The Lodi Gardens [en Los Jardines De Los Lodi]
The Key Of Water [la Llave De Agua]
Madrigal
Madurai
Maithuna
The Mausoleum Of Humayun [el Mausoleo De Humayun]
Mutra
Nightfall [un Anochecer]
On The Roads Of Mysore [por Los Caminos De Mysore]
Ooctacamund [utacamud]
The Other [el Otro]
Passage
Perpetua Encarnada
Release [solutra]
The Religious Fig
Sharj Tepe
Sun On A Blanket [sol Sombre Una Manta]
Sunday On The Island Of Elephanta
Sunyata
A Tale Of Two Gardens [cuento De Dos Jardins]
The Tanghi-garu Pass
The Tomb Of Amir Khusru
Tomb Of The Poet
Village
Vrindaban
Wind From All Compass Points
With Eyes Closed [con Los Ojos Cerrados]
With You [contigo]
Writing [escritura]
Youth
First Meeting
The Oblique Invitation
The Pedagogue
Without Fanfare
Rhetoric
Confidence: Confusion
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Several beautiful and evocative poems included in A Tale of Two Gardens are from his East Slope, already well known to his admirers. Mr. Paz also contrasts Mexico with India, and this in part is the theme of the title poem . . . where he evokes a romantic abandoned garden he had loved as a child and the garden he and his wife, Marie-José, had in Delhi. -- The New York Times Book Review, Raleigh Trevelyan
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish
Original Language: Spanish
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Poetic Ambassador,
This review is from: A Tale of Two Gardens (New Directions Bibelot) (Paperback)
A Tale of Two Gardens is a collection of poems dealing with Nobel laureate Octavio Paz relationship with the great nation of India. He made many trips there over the years. Paz was also the Mexican ambassador to India. (He resigned the position in 1968 to protest government assault on protesters.) There were still later sojourns to India afterwards. Mutra is a really strong poem. It is a flower that grows with each subsequent reading. Few cities have ever been so aptly honoured. Another of the poems I like is The Balcony. Wind From All Compass Points is another standout. The whole collection is a grand achievement. India is the most enduring civilization on the planet. It is only fitting that one of the most enduring poets of the twentieth century should write a poetic tribute. These poems were written over a period of forty years. The love and passion Paz feels for Indian culture and peoples is recurrent in these poems. This was truly his second home. It was the second garden so to speak. And from this love of India came a great gift of poetry for the rest of the world to read and know.
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Sensual and evocative,
This review is from: A Tale of Two Gardens (New Directions Bibelot) (Paperback)
Once again Octavio Paz expresses his love and passion for India and things Indian but this time through his poetry. They style is fluid, sensual and evocative, add to it a plethora of colorful imageries.
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For forty years, India has been the twin of Mexico in Octavio Paz's life and work: the other to his self-described otherness as a Mexican. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nizam Ud-din, Amir Khusru, Tipu Sultan, White Huns, Mexico City, The Kushans New!
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For forty years, India has been the twin of Mexico in Octavio Paz's life and work: the other to his self-described otherness as a Mexican. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nizam Ud-din, Amir Khusru, Tipu Sultan, White Huns, Mexico City, The Kushans New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization by Heinrich Robert Zimmer on page 103
- Love Is by Carolyn Brown on page 107
- In Light of India by Octavio Paz in Front Matter
- New Directions (Hulton Copymasters) by Paul Thomas in Front Matter
- Buddhist Logic (2 volume set) by Theodore Stcherbatsky on page 107
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- Understanding Octavio Paz (Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature) by Jose Quiroga on page 124, page 131, and page 132
- Gardens of the Imagination: A Literary Anthology by Sophie Birotti in Front Matter, and page 132
- 365 Yoga by Julie Rappaport in Back Matter
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