What is the author's style in Duration by Octavio Paz?

Critics have pointed out that Paz's poetry was influenced by French cubism in painting. Duration shows a verbal equivalent of the cubist's visual style. Rather than trying to present the world as it appears, Paz presents a sense of reality that corresponds with how the world feels, which it makes up from specific objects from reality. The nonlinear method of connecting ideas can be frustrating for readers, who do not know exactly why the poem jumps from one idea to another or even what certain images (such as the "manyhanded body") are supposed to be.