Life is a long unanswered question, Octavio Paz tells us, and this book is the graceful manifestation and the measured acceptance of the curse of living as accepting uncertainty, knowing oneself to be broken from the beginning. Two worlds interlace: that of the "I," intimate and subjective, which is revealed in the most lyrical poems, and that of the "we," centered on the exterior, on the historical, rendered in prose poems that are in touch all that human beings can neither disavow nor fully reach.
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Life is a long unanswered question, Octavio Paz tells us, and this book is the graceful manifestation and the measured acceptance of the curse of living as accepting uncertainty, knowing oneself to be broken from the beginning. Two worlds interlace: that of the "I," intimate and subjective, which is revealed in the most lyrical poems, and that of the "we," centered on the exterior, on the historical, rendered in prose poems that are in touch all that human beings can neither disavow nor fully reach.
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