About the Author 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 avila in 2015. Among other distinctions, Roffe was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in poetry (2001) and, more recently, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Center residency fellowship (2012). Roffe lives in New York City and is the founding director of Ediciones Pen Press.
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