This story is about exactly what the title suggests – a man in a relationship with a wave. I was a bit skeptical at first that Paz wouldn’t be able to pull this off. But he did, and he did so brilliantly. It bears all the hallmarks of love and romance and how difficult it is to hold on to that which is wild.
First published in 1949 as part of his collection Águila o sol?. The English translation by Eliot Weinberger appeared in 1976 in the collection Eagle or Sun?, published by New Directions
A Personal Anthology 