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