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A Tree Within: Poetry by Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger

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4.0

It's nearly impossible for me to review poetry. I feel insufficiently well-informed to comment on anything beyond my own feelings. I can't compare the poems to other poets or place them in a literary frame of reference. But I can say that I very much enjoyed reading these poems and found the images evocative and beautiful. I read these immediately after reading love sonnets by Pablo Neruda, and I think I liked the Neruda poems more than these, but I have no reason to thinkn that these two poets should be compared other than that they are both Nobel prize winners and both write in Spanish and I happened to read the two books around the same time.
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