Mercedes Roffe (Buenos Aires, 1954) is one of Argentina's most important and internationally recognized contemporary poets. Her works include Poemas (1977), El tapiz (published under the heteronym, Ferdinand Oziel, 1983), Camara baja (1987; 1996), La noche y las palabras (1996; 1998), Definiciones Mayas (1999), Antologia poetica (2000), Canto errante (2002), Memorial de agravios (2002), La opera fantasma (2005; 2012), Las linternas flotantes (2009) and the volume of selected works, Milenios caen de su vuelo (2005). Mansion nocturna, a second volume of collected works, is forthcoming from Monte...