Octavio Paz is a poet and essayist whose work has the strongest impact on the poetry and poetic thought of Latin America today. This bilingual edition of his poems offers a representative selection from a lyrical oeuvre developed over decades. "At the center of this work stands the Sun Stone - for me, the most admirable love poem ever written in Latin America, a response in the erotic realm to the thirst for total encounter of man with his own transcendence." - Julio Cortázar.