Poesia Completa

by Silvina Ocampo

( Poesia completa. vol. 1) Considerada una de las mejores cuentistas argentinas del siglo XX, Silvina Ocampo fue tambien una admirable poeta. Recibio el Premio Municipal de Poesia y el primer Premio Nacional de Poesia. Esta es la primera vez que se edita el conjuntode su obra poetica, en dos tomos. Este primero "Enumeracion de la patria y otros poemas" (1942); "Espacios metricos" (1945); "Poemas de amor desesperado" (1949); "Los nombres" (1953); un conjunto de traducciones para la revista "Sur" (1947) y poemas no recogidos antes en libros.

Paperback

Published January 1, 2002

About the author

Silvina Ocampo Aguirre was a poet and short-fiction writer.

Ocampo was the youngest of the six children of Manuel Ocampo and Ramona Aguirre. One of her sisters was Victoria Ocampo, the publisher of the literarily important Argentine magazine Sur.

Silvina was educated at home by tutors, and later studied drawing in Paris under Giorgio de Chirico. She was married to Adolfo Bioy Casares, whose lover she became (1933) when Bioy was 19. They were married in 1940. In 1954 she adopted Bioy’s daughter with another woman, Marta Bioy Ocampo (1954-94) who was killed in an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampo’s death.