Besides "Interrupted Elegy" and Eagle or Sun?, he was influenced by the Hungry Generation of Bengal during his time as ambassador to India.
In one of this man's works, the protagonist is accosted by a machete wielding man who demans a bouqet of blue eyes, while in another, the title character takes home a wave. Those works appear in the "Shifting Sands" of a collection of prose poems. He claimed "heaven is closed and hell is empty" in a poem which begins each stanza with "Now I remember the dead of my own house". Besides "Interrupted Elegy" and Eagle or Sun?, he was influenced by the Hungry Generation of Bengal during his time as ambassador to India. One of his poems twice speaks of "a poplar of water" and "a willow of crystal", while an essay collection opens describing the alienation of the pachuco and features chapters such as "The Mexican Intelligentsia" and "The Conquest and Colonialism." For 10 points, name this Mexican author of "Sunstone" and The Labyrinth of Solitude.
In one of this man's works, the protagonist is accosted by a machete wielding man who demans a bouqet of blue eyes, while in another, the title character takes home a wave.
Octavio {Paz}