Poems, stories, and personal reflections reveal the interwoven existence of imagination and reality in the mind of the South American writer.

Contents:
Part I
• To Leopoldo Lugones
• The Maker
• Dreamtigers
• Dialogue on a Dialogue
• Toenails
• The Draped Mirrors
• Argumentum Orinthologicum
• The Captive
• The Sham
• Delia Elena San Marco
• Dead Men's Dialogue
• The Plot
• A Problem
• A Yellow Rose
• The Witness
• Martin Fierro
• Mutations
• Parable of Cevantes and Don Quixote
• Paradiso XXXI, 108
• Parable of the Palace
• Everything and Nothing
• Ragnarök
• Inferno I, 32
• Borges and I
Part II
• Poem About Gifts
• The Hourglass
• The Game of Chess
• Mirrors
• Elivera de Alvear
• Susana Soca
• The Moon
• The Rain
• On the Effigy of a Captain in Cromwell's Armies
• To an Old Poet
• The Other Tiger
• Blind Pew
• Referring to a Ghost of Eighteen-Hundred and Ninety-Odd
• Referring to the Death of Colonel Francisco Borges (1835-1874)
• In Memoriam: A. R.
• The Borges
• To Louis de Camoëns
• Nineteen-Hundred and Twenty-Odd
• Ode Composed in 1960
• Ariosto and the Arabs
• On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar
• Luke XXIIII
• Adrogué
• Ars Poetica
• Museum
• On Rigor in Science
• Quatrain
• Limits
• The Poet Declares His Renown
• The Magnanimous Enemy
• The Regret of Heraclitus
• Epilogue