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Piedra de Sol (Sunstone) is a poem by Octavio Paz written in 1957. It was praised as a magnificent example of surrealist poetry in the presentation speech of his Nobel Prize. It is a circular poem based on the circular Aztec calendar and consists of a single cyclical sentence reflecting the synodic period of the planet Venus. The poem has 584 corresponding to this 584-days period.