Amorgos Notebook (Cuaderno de Amorgos) is a collection from 2007 that won for Elsa Cross Mexico's most prestigious poetry prize, the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, especially valued by its recipients as the winner is chosen by her peers in the literary world. Elsa Cross' work over the past several decades has demonstrated a considerable fascination with Greece, and this sequence takes its departure from the island of Amorgos, in the Cyclades, home of remarkable ancient sculptures, and spectacular terrain.

Translated by: Tony Frazer, Luis Ingelmo