Epitaph for an Old Woman
by Octavio Paz
In the six short lines of ‘Epitaph for an Old Woman,’ Paz explores loss and sorrow in a powerful way.
Octavio Paz was a Mexican poet. He won numerous world prizes for his poetry collections, including the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1977 Jerusalem Prize. He died in April 1998 at the age of 84. Read more of Octavio Paz’s Biography.
In the six short lines of ‘Epitaph for an Old Woman,’ Paz explores loss and sorrow in a powerful way.
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