Alternating Current

"Both in poetry and in prose, Paz's work has a rhetorical bravura, a love for the high dramatic stance, which may be satisfying to Latin readers but seems a little to grand in English....The sheer range of [his] book is notable--evidence of his determination to bring the world to Mexico and perhaps even Mexico to the world....Paz's criticism, of a kind seldom undertaken by his sober contemporaries to the north, consists of an epigrammatic philosophical dramatism, with a high quotient of generality and not much effort at textual detail or expository sequence....Sometimes [his]criticism becomes a relentless hammering of displayed brilliance, a little wearying in its emission of insights and formulas; one wishes for occasional moments of quiet conversation, the relaxed talk of a friend."Paz, Octavio is the author of 'Alternating Current', published 1991 under ISBN 9781559701365 and ISBN 1559701366.