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A unique volume of multicultural verse: Octavio Paz - Mexican writer, poet, diplomat and public intellectual, winner of the Premio Cervantes and the Nobel Prize in Literature - built bridges among cultures, and especially among poets. His connections with Asia were considerable. Moved by the wisdom and lyrical thrust of Chinese poetry, he translated some 60 classical poems primarily from the Tang and Song dynasties. These are still considered ...

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, we asked contemporary poets to interpret the themes of Cervantes's classic Don Quixote for Hong Kong and East Asia. The result is a collection of poems by both award-winning and emerging poets from Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines and beyond, illustrating how Don Quixote continues to inspire and illuminate across oceans and centuries.