An Evening with Octavio Paz
from PEN America Hosted by PEN America
Mexican poet Octavio Paz reads his poems "Nocturno de San Ildefonso" and "Brotherhood" in Spanish, and Eliot Weinberger reads his translations of both works. Poets Joseph Brodsky and Paz also discuss such topics as the nature and place of history (riffing off of Paz's line "History is an error"), whether democracy and metaphysics can be reconciled, and what each of them is trying to do with their poetry.
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