Circe Maia was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1932, but she has lived most of her life in the northern city of Tacuarembó. Her collected poems Circe Maia: Obra poética was published in Uruguay in 2011. Her latest book, Dualidades, was published in 2015. Invisible Bridge/ El puente invisible: Selected Poems of Circe Maia, a bilingual edition of her work with translations by Jesse Lee Kercheval is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
He has seen the palm trees of his plaza almost at dawn or when the shadow falls […]
