Alternating Current by Paz, Octavio - 1973

New York: A Richard Seaver Book/The Viking Press. 1973. F First English Edition. H Hard Cover. Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 215 pp, foreword, I.: What Does Poetry Name?; From and Meaning; Homage to Aesop; Language and Abstraction; A Peruvian Painter; Notes on La realidad y el deseo; Landscape and the Novel in Mexico; Metamorphosis; Invention, Underdevelopment, Modernity; The Seed; Primitives and Barbarians; Nature, Abstraction, Time; Figure and Presence; The New Acolytes; On Criticism; Mask and Transparency; Remedios Varo's Appearances and Disappearances; Andre Breton or the Quest of the Beginning; The Verbal Pact and Correspondence; Recapitulations. II.: Knowledge, Drugs, Inspiration; Henri Michaux; Grace, Asceticism, Merits; Paradises; The Metamorphososes of Stone; The Symposium and the Hermit; Bunuel's Philosophical Cinema; Forms of Atheism; Nihilism and Dialectics; Person and Principle; The Liberated Man and Liberators. III.: Revolt, Revolution, Rebellion; The Verbal Round; The City Mouse and the Country Mouse; The Channel and the Signs; Satiety and Nausea; The Two Forms of Reason; The Exception of the Rule; The Rules of the Exception; The End in the Beginning; A Form in Search of Itself; Revolt; index. Translated by Helen R. Lane. First English Edition, 1973. "Not since Ortega has there been a thinker in the Spanish tradition with the breadth, the scope, and the stylistic elan of Octavio Paz. Every subject dealt with in these pages is in some way an adventure of the mind, shared with us by a poet who is brilliant without being brittle, scholarly without being tiresome -- a man whoose sensitivity and perceptiveness are so well matched by the quality of his warmth and human compassion. Not Price Clipped. Faintly age-toned spine dj with only the slightest soiling to panels of same. Slightly faded top text block edge, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and red top text block edge.