This projected new edition of Astérida will make it available to the Spanish reading public a poem published by the contemporary philosopher and literary writer A. Pablo Iannone under the same title (Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Gog y Magog, 1973), when his philosophical and literary career was beginning to be adumbrated.  Written in Alexandrian verse, Astérida is divided into a prelude, nine songs, and an epilogue all separated by short choruses which voice, in Greek tragedy style, the fates and future of events just sung or about to be sung.  Delineating truth with myth, Astérida conveys a serene vision of dramatic cosmogonical events, from the births of Earth and life, through the evolution of all there was and remains in the universe, to the appearance, place, and predicament of humans.  With the benefit of three decades of hindsight, Astérida can be arguably seen as one of the first sustained efforts at writing ecological poetry.