Castanon's tribute seeks to remind us of the enduring strength of Paz's vision. It does so with inimitable poetic beauty. This is, without a doubt, Adolfo Castanon's breakthrough book of poetry. Castanon is one of Mexico's foremost literary critics, as well as an established poet and fiction writer.

The subject of these poems, Octavio Paz, was without a doubt, the leading poet of Spanish America and also one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.