Many critics believe that Paz's finest work was in his extended essay The Labyrinth of Solitude , an extended meditation on the nature of the Mexican people and their character. It is now available in a 1985 edition from Grove Press.
The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957- 1987 was edited by Paz's friend and collaborator Eliot Weinberger. The bilingual edition is available from New Directions, published in 1991.
Paz begins "Duration" with a line from the I Ching , the ancient Chinese book of numerology......
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