In one poem, this author proclaims that "Poetry, like history, is made; poetry, like truth is seen." He wrote "I saw the mountains of the sages / Where the wind mangles eagles" in a collection in which he describes "me[eting] the wind of the hundred days" at a "blue-and-green mosque." Eric Whitacre's choral work Cloudburst sets this author's poem "The Broken Water Jar." Another of his poems begins and ends with six lines describing a "tree that is firmly rooted and that dances, turning course of a river that goes curving." He wrote "I voyage your body... as by a footpath going up a mountain / and suddenly coming upon a steep ravine" in that poem, which begins by describing "a willow of crystal, a poplar of water" an
In one poem, this author proclaims that "Poetry, like history, is made; poetry, like truth is seen." He wrote "I saw the mountains of the sages / Where the wind mangles eagles" in a collection in which he describes "me[eting] the wind of the hundred days" at a "blue-and-green mosque." Eric Whitacre's choral work Cloudburst sets this author's poem "The Broken Water Jar." Another of his poems begins and ends with six lines describing a "tree that is firmly rooted and that dances, turning course of a river that goes curving." He wrote "I voyage your body... as by a footpath going up a mountain / and suddenly coming upon a steep ravine" in that poem, which begins by describing "a willow of crystal, a poplar of water" and consists of 584 lines. For 10 points, name this Mexican author of "San Ildefonso Nocturne," who described India in East Slope, and used the Aztec calendar as the basis for his poem "Sun Stone."
In one poem, this author proclaims that "Poetry, like history, is made; poetry, like truth is seen."
Octavio Paz