Over the past fifteen years, Ida Vitale has won every major Spanish literary award, while interest in her work has spread far and wide. Time Without Keys: Selected Poems is the first book in English that presents the full expanse of her writing, from her early years in Montevideo as part of the groundbreaking-group of writers "the Generation of 1945," through her period of political exile in Mexico following a military coup in Uruguay, to the decades living in Austin. Texas and her eventual return to Montevideo in 2016. The selection spans almost three quarters of a century, and the wonders within overflow with the nature of birds, the nature of time, the nature of language, and the nature of inquiry. Vitale's poetry is revered for being classic and modern, precise and lucid, intellectually challenging and as profound as bird song. Just in time to celebrate her 100th birthday, this bilingual edition, presented in reverse chronological order, offers the reader both a wide range of Vitale's most beloved poems and a wealth of recent poetry. Sarah Pollack, the first to translate Vitale's work into English, has included an informative afterword about Vitale's life of poetry.