Author of The Pears of the Elm and Conunctions and Disjunctions, he rewrote Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter" and a biography of Juana Inez de la Cruz, The Traps of Faith.  
He writes that "to love is to battle, if two kiss the world changes" in a poem that exclaims "I travel your length like a river, I travel your body like a forest."  Author of The Pears of the Elm and Conunctions and Disjunctions, he rewrote Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter" and a biography of Juana Inez de la Cruz, The Traps of Faith.  He is better known for analyzing la Malinche and the Pachucos in a work that claims natives wear masks imposed by colonial powers.  He incorporated the Aztec calendar into his aforementioned poem Sun Stone, and also wrote The Bow and the Lyre and Luna silvestre.  FTP name this Mexican diplomat, and author of The Labyrinth of Solitude.
He writes that "to love is to battle, if two kiss the world changes" in a poem that exclaims "I travel your length like a river, I travel your body like a forest."  
Octavio {Paz}