Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only
now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely
recognized beyond Latin America.
Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo's poetry to appear in
English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to
her meditations on love's travails, to her explorations of the kinship
between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into
history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of
Ocampo's "metaphysical lyricism" (The Independent) represented in this
groundbreaking edition.