Silba el viento
entre los fresnos
surtidores
luz y sombra casi líquidas
voces de agua
brillan fluyen se pierden . . .
Wind whistles
in the ash trees
fountains
almost liquid light and shadow
voices of water
shine flow are lost . . .
–Three Poems by Octavio Paz
When the Swedish Academy awarded Octavio Paz the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1990, they quoted a 1976 poem in which he wrote:
Between what I see and what I say,
Between what I say and what I keep silent
Between what I keep silent and what I dream,
Between what I dream and what I forget:
Poetry.
Octavio Paz “was able to cull from the language of the avant‑garde the very best to create a Latin‑American poetic language,” said Yale professor Gonzales Echevarria. Three Poems are printed in the original Spanish in red alongside English translations in black. Included is, “The Skin of the World, The Sound of the World” Paz’s tribute to Robert Motherwell. “ . . . sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my unconscious, the way a dream might,” declared Motherwell—a statement that resonates like the words of his great friend Octavio Paz.
- One Volume, 18-1/2 x 21-3/4 inches
- Twenty‑seven lithographs by Robert Motherwell
- Edition limited to seven hundred fifty numbered copies
- Newsletter
- Each signed by Octavio Paz and Robert Motherwell
The lithographs vary in size up to 14 x 10 inches and were pulled on hand-made Japanese paper of contrasting colors. The book, bound by hand with boards of Irish linen, has a lithograph that is recessed into the cover. The hinged protective box is covered in the same linen. 1988. $ 4,700
Robert Motherwell Lithograph
Title Page
Second Title Page
Robert Motherwell Lithograph
” Silba el viento . . .”
Robert Motherwell Lithograph
” Wind whistles . . .”
Robert Motherwell Lithograph
” Je t’aime . . .”
Robert Motherwell Lithograph
Colophon Page
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