La obra de Olga Orozco (Argentina 1920) es una de las más originales de la poesía hispanoamericana de este siglo. Su estilo, al decir de Guillermo Sucre, "combina arrebato y alucinación, pero también lucidez". La presente selección abarca no sólo la producción poética sino también los dos libros de relatos de Olga Orozco, y ofrece un amplio recorrido por toda su obra hasta la actualidad.
Olga Orozco (1920-1999) (real name Olga Noemí Gugliotta) was an Argentine poet born in Toay, La Pampa. She spent her childhood in Bahía Blanca until she was 16 years old and she moved to Buenos Aires with her parents where she initiated her career as a writer. Orozco directed some literary publications using some pseudonymous names while she worked as a journalist. She was a member of so-called «Tercera Vanguardia» generation, which had a strong surrealist tendency . Her poetic works were influenced by Rimbaud, Nerval, Baudelaire, Miłosz and Rilke. Olga Orozco died in Buenos Aires at the age of 79 because of a cardiac crisis.