Una seleccion poetica que reune los poemas mas destacados de la produccion de la ganadora del Premio Juan Rulfo. Dice Marcelo Pichon Riviere: Largos poemas que tienen una imponente Nonfiction, hecha con un ritmo encadenado, y envolvente, que han forjado uno de los estilos mas singulares de la poesia en lengua castellana
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.