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UNPUBLISHED AND SCATTERED POETRY /POESÍA INÉDITA Y DISPERSA (2001)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