Literary Partners Program presents: Shearsman Books at Poets House

The 20 April features the Argentinian poet Mercedes Roffé and Shearsman authors Eléna Rivera and Mervyn Taylor.

Mercedes Roffé (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), Cámara baja (1987; 1996), La noche y las palabras (1996; 1998), Definiciones Mayas (1999), Antología poética (2000), Canto errante (2002), Memorial de agravios (2002), La ópera fantasma (2005; 2012), Las linternas flotantes (2009) and the volume of selected works, Milenios caen de su vuelo (2005). Mansión nocturna, a second volume of collected works, is forthcoming from Monte Ávila in 2015. Among other distinctions, Roffé was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in poetry (2001) and, more recently, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Center residency fellowship (2012). Roffé lives in New York City and is the founding director of Ediciones Pen Press.

This program is made possible in part through the Poets House Literary Partners Program.