Delmira Agustini, Sexual Seduction, and Vampiric Conquest

by Cathy L. Jrade

Delmira Agustini (1886-1914) has been acclaimed as one of the foremost modernistas and the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Critics and the reading public alike were immediately taken by the originality and power of her verse, especially her daring eroticism, her inventive appropriation of vampirism, and her morbid embrace of death and pain. No work until now, however, has shown how her poetry reflects a search for an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300167741
• ISBN13: 9780300167740
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"