An impressive selection, in bilingual format, from the work of one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers.

-The meticulous and loving catalog of moments, animals, plants, beings, suns, and nocturnal revelations that this poetry offers us constitutes - in my way of thinking--a terrible oracle, and at last a shout of hope. To say it in a simpler, more direct way, it is a prayer.---Alvaro Mutis

-Alberto Blanco's deep poetry inhabits both the world and the universe of imagination; these poems shed their own light and fly on their own wings.---Michael McClure

Born in Mexico...