Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz is incontestably Latin America's foremost living poet. <em>The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz</em> is a landmark bilingual gathering of all the poetry he has published in book form since 1952, the year of his premier long poem, <em>Sunstone</em> (<em>Piedra de Sol</em>)—here translated anew by Eliot Weinberger—made its appearance. This is followed by the complete texts of <em>Days and Occasions</em> (<em>Días Hábiles</em>),<em> Homage and Desecrations</em> (<em>Homenaje y Profanaciones</em>), <em>Salamander</em> (<em>Salamandra</em>), <em>Solo for Two Voices</em> (<em>Solo a Dos Voces</em>), <em>East Slope</em> (<em>Ladera Este</em>), <em>Toward the Beginning</em> (<em>Hacza el Comienzo</em>), <em>Blanco</em>, <em>Topoems</em> (<em>Topoemas</em>), <em>Return</em> (<em>Vuelta</em>), <em>A Draft of Shadows</em> (<em>Pasado en Claro</em>), <em>Airborn</em> (<em>Hijos del Aire</em>), and Paz's most recent collection, <em>A Tree Within</em> (<em>Árbol Adentro</em>).<br /><br />With additional translations by Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, John Frederick Nims, and Charles Tomlinson.