SOURCE: Kushigian, Julia A. “Flowing Rivers and Contiguous Shores: The Poetics of Paz.” In Orientalism in the Hispanic Literary Tradition, pp. 43-69. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.
In the following essay, Kushigian explores ways in which Paz uses language, imagery, and subject matter to depict his philosophy of the mutuality and intersection of Eastern and Western culture and philosophy.