Publisher's Synopsis
Cortázar is known as great novelist, but he was also a prolific poet, this volume represents the only poetry survey by Cortázar in print in the English language and the original Spanish.
This was the final project that Cortázar was working on before he passed away in 1984. These poems (in the Spanish, printed in the book along with the English) were chosen by Cortázar himself. This new edition preserves the project as it was meant to be seen by Cortázar with 20 pages restored from his selection.
Cortázar believed that poetry was central to his writing life, and these poems reveal many unseen sides of his complex personality and his love-hate relations with Argentina as well as an intimate glimpse of his personal life and obsession in his adopted home of Paris.
