Contents

Biographical Notes

Title Page

Copyright Page

Introduction

ENUMERATION OF MY COUNTRY / ENUMERACIÓN DE LA PATRIA (1942)

Enumeration of My Country

Buenos Aires

San Isidro

Sonnets from the Garden

The Portrait

The Mirror

The Hands

The Siesta

The Balcony

The Storm

The Ride

Sleepless Palinurus

Epitaph for a Tree

Epitaph for a Trapeze Artist

Epitaph for a Lover

Epitaph for a Poet

Epitaph for a Shipwrecked Sailor

Epitaph for a Mariner

Epitaph for an Aroma

To a Person Sleeping

METRICAL SPACES / ESPACIOS MÉTRICOS (1945)

Irremissible Memory

The Infinite Horses

Cain’s Words

Autobiography of Irene

Epitaph for the Proud One

Epitaph for a Jealous Woman

Epitaph for a House

POEMS OF DESPERATE LOVE /POEMAS DE AMOR DESESPERADO (1949)

Song

Memory of the Rains

Dance

Apocalypse

Elegy of the Demolished Grove

Dialogues of the Silence

THE NAMES / LOS NOMBRES (1953)

Scales

The Vision

The Mosaics

Apocryphal Immobility

The Infinite Life

Sonnets in the Lines of a Hand

The Dog Okinamaro

THE BITTER FOR THE SWEET / LO AMARGO POR DULCE (1962)

Act of Contrition

Love

The Music’s Reproaches

Sleep’s Persuasion

Translucent Alchemy

To My Despair

The Embrace

Imitations

Darkness

Facing the Seine, Recalling the Río de la Plata

Illusion

Prisoner Between Glass

The Towns

Childhood Home

CELESTIAL YELLOW / AMARILLO CELESTE (1972)

In Every Direction

Mirrors

For an Orchid

Vain Warning

Farewell

Postcard

The Crime

Love

Dolphins

A Tiger Speaks

Xerxes’ Plane Tree

The Pines

My Distant Feet

Love Pursued

Sleeping Hydra

Inscriptions Cain Read in Abel’s Eyes

The Sibyl Speaks to Her Consultants

TREES OF BUENOS AIRES /ÁRBOLES DE BUENOS AIRES (1979)

The Trees’ Abode

Fragrance

Palm Tree in the Window

Engraved Messages

Jacaranda

Ubiquitous Color

Apologia

UNPUBLISHED AND SCATTERED POETRY /POESÍA INÉDITA Y DISPERSA (2001)

Singular Wisdom

Apocryphal Picture

Vanity of Vanities

Nocturne

Perplexity

Complete Forgetfulness

Cumulus Nimbus

Your Name

Death of My Father