Melinda Camber Porter Archive of Creative WorksVolume I: Journalism and Volume II: Art and LiteratureISSN: 2379-2450 (Print), 2379-3198 (Ebook), 2379-321X (Audio)Website: www.MelindaCamberPorter.comBlake PressMelinda Camber Porter's conversation with Octavio Paz took place in August 1983 at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Their wide-ranging conversation included the subjects of comparative art, literature, poetry and politics in Mexico, Latin America, Europe and America, as well as Paz's reflections on writer's block. Dr. Laura Vidler, Chair of Spanish at the University of South Dakota, writes in her foreword, "if you think you've read this interview before [in the Partisan Review in 1986] you haven't." As the Partisan Review redacted much of the content."In this new volume, however, the interview is published in its entirety, and the results are wonderful. Empathy between Paz and Camber Porter is established quickly. A professional diplomat, Paz's dual life as cultural ambassador and writer parallels Camber Porter's. Conversation about Duchamp, Picasso, Camus and Matisse-- previously cut--appears here, as well as discussion of the classical Spanish poets that made-up Paz's early reading--Quevedo, Góngora, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (the subject of Paz's book, Las trampas de la Fe). In the second foreword, Scott Chaskey, a poet and farmer-naturalist from Sag Harbor, New York, provides his personal inspirations received from Octavio Paz. "For forty years, I have returned to this beautiful evocation by Octavio Paz from The Bow and the Lyre." In addition to Melinda Camber Porter's interview with Octavio Paz, this published edition includes Octavio Paz' 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature lecture in the original Spanish and an English translation.Volume 1, Number 4: ISBN 978-1-942231-07-3Melinda Camber Porter In Conversation With Octavio Paz, At his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico in 1983Includes Octavio Paz's Nobel Prize Lecture in English and ItalianMelinda Camber Porter Archive of Creative WorksVolume I: Journalism and Volume II: Art and LiteratureISSN: 2379-2450 (Print), 2379-3198 (Ebook), 2379-321X (Audio)Website: www.MelindaCamberPorter.comBlake Press