José Emilio Pacheco

José Emilio Pacheco at the Octavio Paz award 2003

José Emilio Pacheco (born June 30, 1939 in Mexico City) is a Mexican poet, essayist, translator, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century.

He has taught literature at UNAM, as well as the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Essex, and many others in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

He has been awarded the following poetry prizes: Federico Garcia Lorca International Poetry Prize (2005),Octavio Paz (2003), Pablo Neruda (2004), Ramón López Velarde (2003), Alfonso Reyes (2004), José Asunción Silva (1996), and Xavier Villaurrutia. He was elected by unanimous acclaim to the Mexican Academy (Academia Mexicana de la Lengua) on March 28, 2006.

Poetry

• Los elementos de la noche
• El reposo del fuego
• La arena errante
• Siglo pasado
• No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo (Don't Ask Me How the Time Goes by: Poems, 1964-1968)
• El silencio de la luna
• Tarde o temprano (Collected works)
• La fábula del tiempo (Anthology)

Narrative work

• El viento distante
• Las batallas en el desierto (Battles in the Desert & Other Stories)
• La sangre de Medusa y otros cuentos marginales
• El principio del placer (The Beginning of Pleasure)
• Morirás lejos (You Will Die Far Away)

See also

• Pensar en la inmortalidad del cangrejo

Further reading

English:

• Modern Spanish American poets. Second series / María Antonia Salgado., 2004
• José Emilio Pacheco and the poets of the shadows / Ronald J Friis., 2001
• Out of the volcano : portraits of contemporary Mexican artists / Margaret Sayers Peden., 1991
• Tradition and renewal : essays on twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture / Merlin H Forster., 1975
• The turning tides : the poetry of José Emilio Pacheco / Mary Kathryn Docter., 1991
• Time in the poetry of José Emilio Pacheco : images, themes, poetics / Judith Roman Topletz., 1983

Spanish:

• José Emilio Pacheco : perspectivas críticas / Hugo J Verani., 2006
• Ensoñación cósmica : poética de El reposo de fuego de José Emilio Pacheco / Betina Bahía Diwan., 2004
• Dilemas de la poesía de fin de siglo : José Emilio Pacheco y Jaime Saenz / Elizabeth Pérez., 2001
• José Emilio Pacheco : poeta y cuentista posmoderno / José de Jesús Ramos., 1992
• El papel del lector en la novela mexicana contemporánea: José Emilio Pacheco/ Magda Graniela-Rodríguez., 1991
• José Emilio Pacheco : poética y poesía del prosaísmo / Daniel Torres., 1990
• La hoguera y el viento : José Emilio Pacheco ante la crítica / Hugo J Verani., 1987
• José Emilio Pacheco / Luis Antonio de Villena., 1986
• Ficción e historia : la narrativa de José Emilio Pacheco / Yvette Jiménez de Báez., 1979

External links

• José Emilio Pacheco (at El Colegio Nacional)
• Faculty page at the University of Maryland
• Essay on Pacheco from The Quarterly Conversation