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Octavio Paz[oktA´vyO pAs´] Pronunciation Key, 1914–98, Mexican poet and critic. A diplomat, he lived abroad many years. Paz's books : revealing depth of insight, elegance, and erudition : place him among his generation's ablest writers. His works include the poetry collections La estaciOn violenta (1956), Piedra de sol (1957), Alternating Current (tr. 1973), Configurations (tr. 1971), Early Poems: 1935–1955 (tr. 1974), and Collected Poems, 1957–1987 (1987); the volumes of essays The Labyrinth of Solitude (tr. 1963), The Other Mexico (tr. 1972); and El arco y la lira (1956; tr. The Bow and the Lyre, 1973); criticism; and studies of Claude LEvi-Strauss and Marcel Duchamp (both, tr. 1970). In 1971–72 Paz delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard; they are collected in Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde (1974). In 1990 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
See I. Ivask, ed., The Perpetual Present (1974).
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