Sor Juana's love poems / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ; translations by Jaime Manrique and Joan Larkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695.

Contributor:

Manrique, Jaime, 1949-

Larkin, Joan.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Love poetry, Mexican.

Love poetry, Mexican--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

83 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2003?]

Language Note:

English translation with originial Spanish text.

Summary:

Love poems by one of the world's most daring erotic writers. 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 Ines 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.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Painted Leaf Press, c1997.

ISBN:

0299187047

OCLC:

51093258