Title: Listening to Octavio Paz
Speaker: Catalina Gómez (Librarian, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress); Talía Guzmán-González (Librarian, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress); Juan Felipe Herrera (Former U.S. Poet Laureate); Octavio Paz (poet)
Series: Listening to the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape
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Running Time: 29:50 minutes
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Description:
Mexican Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz recorded for the Library of Congress’ Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape in 1961 Reference Librarians Catalina Gómez and Talía Guzmán-González speak with former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, and discuss an excerpt from this historic recording. The episode also includes clips of Paz’s recording for our collection. The Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (AHLOT) is an audio archive of more than 750 recordings of poets and prose writers from the Luso-Hispanic world reading from their works. Part of the archive is now available for online streaming.
The entire list of authors recorded for the AHLOT can be consulted here.
