not a book review...

     So, I'm disappointed as hell in the new Poems of Octavio Paz. The poems, of course, are beautiful. It's just that the collection itself is slapped together from already existing books that, taken separately, offer a far more generous collection of the master's poems. This went right over my head as I went all euphoric at the possibility of finding in this book poems never before found. Alas and alack, my friends, that was not to be. Instead, you get selections from Paz's early poems, from Eagle or Sun, from East Slope, etcetera. That there from is the key my dear reader. 

     You are better off picking up Early Poems, 1935-1955, Eagle or Sun?, prose poems; and The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1955-1987. While you're at it, why not pick up Alternating Current along with The Bow and the Lyre, two of his finest prose works. Oh, and you'll need The Double Flame. Then there's...