The Child Poet

First published as El poeta niño by Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1971
and El Encantador solitario, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1972
First Archipelago Books Edition, 2016

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The publication of The Child Poet was made possible with support from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (Mexico), Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Proust epigraph:
Remembrance of Things Past, vol. 1, Swann’s Way.
Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff,
Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1992.

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