Floating Lanterns

Roffe, Mercedes: - Mercedes Roff� (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), C�mara baja (1987; 1996), La noche y las palabras (1996; 1998), Definiciones Mayas (1999), Antolog�a po�tica (2000), Canto errante (2002), Memorial de agravios (2002), La �pera fantasma (2005; 2012), Las linternas flotantes (2009) and the volume of selected works, Milenios caen de su vuelo (2005). Mansi�n nocturna, a second volume of collected works, is forthcoming from Monte �vila in 2015. Among other distinctions, Roff� was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in poetry (2001) and, more recently, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Center residency fellowship (2012). Roff� lives in New York City and is the founding director of Ediciones Pen Press.