The monkey grammarian
Original title: Mono gramático
earliest edition we have, 1981 Arcade Pub., 1990 162 pages
"Hanuman, the red-faced monkey chief and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology, is the protagonist of this dazzling prose poem--a mind-journey to the temple city of Galta in India and the occation for Octavio Paz, the celebrated Mexican poet and essayist, to explore the nature of naming and knowing, time and reality, and fixity and decay."-- Publisher description.
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