Olga Orozco is recognized as one of the greatest women poets in twentieth-century Spanish American literature. She has written nine volumes of poetry, two works in prose, and one play. Her books have reached high sales numbers and have been read and studied extensively not only in Argentina, her place of birth, but in the United States and Europe as well. She has won many national and international literary prizes, the best-known of which are the Gran Premio de Honor de la Fundación Argentina para la Poesía (Great Honor Prize from the Argentine Poetry Foundation) in 1971; the Gran Premio del Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Great Prize from the National Arts Fund) in 1980; the Primer Premio de Poesía Esteban Echeverría (First Esteban Echeverría Poetry Prize) in 1981; the Primer Premio Nacional de Poesía (First National Poetry Prize...