A Tale of Two Gardens : Poems from India 1952-1995

A Tale of Two Gardens collects the poetry from over 40 years of Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz's many and various commitments to India -- as Mexican ambassador, student of Indian philosophy, and above all, as poet. Paz has considered his many non-fiction works on India to be, in effect, footnotes to these poems: from the long work "Mutra" (1952, here with a new commentary by the poet) to the celebrated poems of East Slope, and his recent adaptations from the classical Sanskrit. "No other Western poet has been as immersed in India as Paz", writes Eliot Weinberger in his introduction.