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<\/a>… on March 31, & left eso mundo<\/em> in April 1998. A day, thus, on which to take time to reread a few of Paz’s poems<\/a> in Eliot Weinberger’s excellent translations, & probably an essay or so. On the day of his passing I was in Berkeley & wrote the following poem, in memoriam:<\/p>\n6:30 am on terrace of the <\/i>French Hotel in
\n<\/i>Berkeley, reading the New York Times
\n<\/i>obituary for Octavio Paz while<\/i><\/p>\n
across the street just
\nto the right of Chez Panisse
\na pale watery sun<\/p>\n
sits locked in-
\nto the criss-cross webbing
\nof a tall dark fir \u2014<\/p>\n
as if his going had
\nfor a moment stopped
\nSol in it\u2019s tracks \u2014<\/p>\n
the world a bit colder
\nafter the heat of Paz,
\na bit older, less bold,<\/p>\n
his ashes raining A light wind shifts move in- while you now sit with Benito to some yankee poetas must be unstuck\u201d of the imagination & releasing that sun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … on March 31, & left eso mundo in April 1998. A day, thus, on which to take time to reread a few of Paz’s poems in Eliot Weinberger’s excellent translations, & probably...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,55,91,103],"tags":[1523],"class_list":["post-11827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-intellectuals","category-poetry","category-translation","tag-octavio-paz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11827"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11860,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions\/11860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nnow over
\n<\/span>Mexican earth.<\/p>\n
\ntwigs, the sun it
\nseems to<\/p>\n
\ncrementally higher \u2014
\nit all does go on<\/p>\n
\nJuarez & Pancho Villa
\n& introduce them<\/p>\n
\nBlackburn, say, and Olson still
\nmumbling \u201cthe wheels of the sun<\/p>\n
\n& you argue for a
\nrevolution<\/p>\n
\nwe say, Octavio,
\ngracias for<\/p>\n