Octavio Paz

Salamandra

Poems celebrating sensuality, love, and the fluidity of identity and time

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Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz

Mexican Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist whose The Labyrinth of Solitude is the most profound meditation on Mexican national identity ever written. His essays on love, eroticism, and art are among the finest in Spanish. He was also Mexico's ambassador to India and a significant diplomat.

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