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    Octavio Paz was a Mexican poet and critic who was influenced by Surrealism. His poems dealt with themes of isolation and sexual union. In his prose work Labyrinth of Solitude from 1950, he explored notions of Mexican identity. Paz travelled extensively as a diplomat, including being the Mexican ambassador to India in the 1960s. He later worked as a professor of literature and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

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    Erotic Literature 315

    Octavio Paz
    b. 1914

    The Mexican poet and critic Octavio Paz traveUed extensively as a diplomat (he was the Mexican ambassador in New
    Delhi in the mid-1960s) and more recently as a professor of literature. Influenced by tMSurrealists, his poems deal
    with themes of isolation and sexual union, and in the prose-work Labyrinth of Solitude (1950) he explores notions
    of Mexican identity. He was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.

    'Shrine' (1976). Trans. MichaelEdwards


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    The name
    Its umbras
    The man The Woman
    The hammer The gong
    The i The o
    The tower The well
    The pointer The hour
    The bone The rose
    The shower The grave
    The spring The flame
    The brand The night
    The river The city
    The keel The anchor
    The manwomb The wombman
    The man
    His body of names
    Your name in my name I your name my name
    One facing the other one against the other one around the other
    The one in the other
    Nameless

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