POET AND AESTHETIC

El Alejado. (Viñeta) Editorial Albatros. Buenos Aires. 1957.

Octavo (16 x 10.8 cm), 84 pp., 3 sheets, with a drypoint by Raúl Veroni. Paperback publisher binding, contained in a cloth and leather cradle, with the bibliophile's initials: Gustavo Fillol Day. Magnificent copy, unmarked, signed and numbered. The prince edition of it was from 1943, here we present it in a volume of the La Cartuja collection, directed by Nicolás Cócaro, with a drawing by R. E. Molinari himself.

The Argentine poet Ricardo E. Molinari was part of the ultraist movement that came from Spain and that was adopted in Argentina, among others, by Jorge Luis Borges and Oliverio Girondo. His first book (El imaginero, 1927) consecrated him as one of the most important Argentine authors. The themes of his poetry range from landscape to love and religion seen through his personal experience. Among the many works he published are "Hosteria de la rosa y el carnation" (1933), "Odes ashore de un viejo rio" (1940), "Unida noche" (1957), "An ancient shadow sings" (1966) , "The Bowl" (1973) and "The Shadows of the Toasted Bird" (1975). In 1958 he received the National Prize for Literature.

He published a large number of titles, although many of them today are elusive, since they were published in almost handcrafted versions, of exquisite execution and low circulation.