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 complex sexual feelings they address.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 06/25/2003
ISBN: 9780299187040
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.00w x 0.33d

Review Citations: Multicultural Review 03/01/2004 pg. 15