“Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.”

"Poem of the Gifts" ["Poema de los Dones"]
Dreamtigers (1960)

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Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986

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