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José Emilio Pacheco

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20th Century Mexican Poet

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Battles in the Desert and Other Stories

Battles in the Desert and Other Stories
Selected Poems of Jose Emilio Pacheco

Selected Poems of Jose Emilio Pacheco
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“For José Emilio Pacheco time is the agent of universal destruction, and history—the passage of ruins... Pacheco exalts the triumph of nature over culture, but in exalting it, doesn't he transfigure it, changing it into the word, or—as he puts it—into 'fleeting music, the counterpoint of wind and water'?”

— Octavio Paz on José Emilio Pacheco's Selected Poems of Jose Emilio Pacheco

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