José Emilio Pacheco

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. He has been a member of The National College ("El Colegio Nacional") since 1986.

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)

Novel

*El viento distante y otros relatos(1963)
*Morirás lejos (1967)
*El principio del placer (1972)
*La sangre de Medusa (1977)
*Las batallas en el desierto (1981)
*El Emperador de los Asirios

ee 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

* [http://www.colegionacional.org.mx/Pacheco0.htm José Emilio Pacheco] (at El Colegio Nacional)
* [http://www.quarterlyconversation.com/TQC10/pacheco.html Essay on Pacheco] from The Quarterly Conversation