Moon Across the Way and San Martin Copybook Summary

In the book Moon Across the Way, "Street with a Pink Corner Store" portrays the poet coming upon a street unknown to him at dawn after he has been walking all night in Buenos Aires. In the rosy light, he reflects that he has seen little of the world, and that the light on a street such as this is the only music his life has understood. In "Anticipation of Love," the poet imagines his loved one asleep, enfolded in his arms, which he believes would be a gift more mysterious than any other she could give him, because he might see her free of time, of love, and of him. "General Quiroga Rides to His Death in a Carriage" depicts the assassination of the general by agents of...