He founded and edited a number of important literary magazines, including Workshop, and The Prodigal Son.
He founded and edited a number of important literary magazines, including Workshop, and The Prodigal Son. His use of rich surrealist images in his metaphysical speculation is evidenced in such prose works as The Monkey Grammarian and Conjunctions and Disjunctions. He grew up around revolutionaries, as his father was the secretary to Emiliano Zapata. His poetry attempts to show how erotic love and artistic creativity overcomes man's loneliness; collections include Freedom Under Parole, Sun Stone, and They Shall Not Pass. For 10 points, identify this Mexican poet, author of The Labyrinth of Solitude, and recipient of the 1990 Nobel Prize in literature.
He founded and edited a number of important literary magazines, including Workshop, and The Prodigal Son.
Octavio {Paz}