The Introduction is intended to show how Pujol Russell's poetry attempts to erase, or at least alter, the fundamental distinction between language and the real, or being."--BOOK JACKET.

Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Noel Valis. The award-winning poetry of Noni Benegas illuminates the ineffable world in which we live. Journeying between past and present, between the everyday world and the world of dreams, her poetry creates a space where, for an instant, the unknown feels familiar and the uncertain becomes reliable. Born in Argentina, Benegas has lived in Spain since 1977 and is the author of five books of poetry: Argonautica (Silver Prize of the United Nations); La balsa de la Medusa (National Miguel Hernandez Prize); Cartografia ardiente; Las entretelas sedosas; and Fragmentos de un diario desconocido (Esquio Poetry Prize).

'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.