Sor Juana's Love Poems

by Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juana Inés de la Cruz

Book Overview

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 In?s 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299187047
• ISBN13: 9780299187040
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Approximate English translation

An excellent, cultured, lovely publication of poetry, written by the "Tenth Muse", Juana de Asbaje, a nun changed by work and the grace of the Counter-Reformation. A chosen classic collection of the best of female Spanish poetry is offered here, with graceful word games, surprising dilogues, "concepts", amazing metaphors, etc. The splendor of the Spanish language and the freshness and grace of an intense feminine voice.

Buena muestra de poesía barroca

Una excelente producción culterana de poesía amorosa, escrita por la "Décima Musa", Juana de Asbaje, transmutada en monja por obra y gracia de la época contrarreformista. Se ofrece aquí una sarta correctamente elegida de estrofas clásicas de la mejor poesía española, con graciosos juegos de palabras, dilogías sorprendentes, "conceptos", metáforas asombrosas, etc. El esplendor de la lengua española y la frescura y gracia de una intensa voz femenina.