by Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003
eISBN: 978-0-299-18703-3 | Paper: 978-0-299-18704-0
Library of Congress Classification PQ7296.J6A24 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 861.3

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

These exquisite love poems, some of them clearly addressed to women, were written by the visionary and passionate genius of Mexican letters, the seventeenth-century nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. In this volume they are translated into the idiom of our own time by poets Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique. Some of them are rooted in Renaissance courtly conventions; others are startlingly ahead of their time, seemingly modern in the naked power of the complex sexual feelings they address.