Plagios / Plagiarisms

Poet, essayist, and translator Ulalume Gonzâalez de Leâon believed that Everything has already been said," and, thus, that each act of creation is a rewriting, reshuffling, and reconstructing of one great work. For this reason, she chose the title Plagios (Plagiarisms) for her book of collected poems. Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz called Ulalume Gonzâalez de Leâon "the best Mexicana poet since Sor Juana Inâes de la Cruz," recognizing the visionary quality of her work. This first of three bilingual volumespresents several short collections of poems Gonzâalez de Leâon produced from 1968 to 1971, each of which explores the ephemeral nature of identity and its dependence on the ever-shifting ground of language and memory"--Back cover of volume 1.