O CTAVIO P AZ

Salon Wanderlust: An excerpt from In Light of India, by Octavio Paz.

Octavio Paz (1914-1998)

A poem by Octavio Paz By Robert Hass April 26, 1998 I was in San Miguel de Allende in January when I heard that Octavio Paz was gravely ill. My hotel room had a rooftop patio. When I walked out onto it at dawn, 6, 000 feet up in the Sierra Madre, I looked out at a late Renaissance dome, 18th-century church spires, laundry lines, utility lines, black rooftop cats gazing with what seemed religious ...