<p><em>Like the Rains Come. Selected Poems (1987-2006)</em> is Mercedes Roffé's first book-length collection published in English. Including poems from one of her earliest books<em> The Lower Chamber </em>(1983) which placed her among the most innovative Latin American poets of the 80s as well as the series 'Mayan Definitions' - her internationally-acclaimed poems from<em> La opera fantasma</em> (2006) -<em> Like the Rains Come</em> introduces a broad spectrum of Roffé's compelling and protean poetics to the English-language reader.</p><p></p>