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Song

Silvina Ocampo

Translated by Jason Weiss

‘Oh, nothing, nothing is mine. / I am like the reflections of a gloomy lake / or the echo of voices at the bottom of a blue / well when it has rained.’

Silvina Ocampo

Silvina Ocampo (1903–1993) was one of Argentina’s great twentieth-century poets and short story writers. She emerged onto the Buenos Aires literary scene in 1937 with her first book of short stories, The Forgotten Journey, and later co-authored The Book of Fantasy  with her close friend Jorge Luis Borges. She went on to publish many books of poetry and short fiction and her works have been widely translated. Thus Were Their Faces, an English-language collection of her short stories was published by NYRB Classics in 2015.

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Translated by Jason Weiss

Jason Weiss is the author of five books, including Always in Trouble: An Oral History of ESP-Disk’, the Most Outrageous Record Label in America and The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris. Among his translations are the stories of Marcel Cohen and the poems of Luisa Futoransky. He lives in Brooklyn.

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