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Sor Juana's love poems / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz ; translations by Jaime Manrique and Joan Larkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love poetry, Mexican--Translations into English.
- Love poetry, Mexican.
- Physical Description:
- 83 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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."
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword Sor Juana and Love
- El hijo que la esclava ha concebido
- When a Slave Gives Birth
- Divina Lysi mía
- My Divine Lysi
- Pedirte, Señora, quiero
- I Beg You, Señora
- Detente, sombra de mi bien esquivo
- Don't Go, My Darling. I Don't Want This to End Yet
- Esta tarde, mi bien, cuando te hablaba
- This Afternoon, My Darling, I Kept Talking
- Con el dolor de la mortal herida
- Love Opened a Mortal Wound
- ¿Vesme, Alcino, que atada a la cadena…?
- Look at Me, Alcino. See the Chain?
- ¿Qué es esto, Alcino? ¿Cómo tu cordura…?
- Have You Lost Your Mind, Alcino?
- Inés, yo con tu amor me refocilo
- Inez, I Have to Gloat: You're Gorgeous
- Inés, cuando te riñen por bellaca
- Inez, When Someone Tells You You're a Bitch
- ¿Qué pasión, Porcia, qué dolor tan ciego…?
- Portia, What Passion, What Blind Pain
- En la vida que siempre tuya fue
- Divine Laura, My Life Was Always Yours
- Elegía
- Elegy
- I. De la beldad de Laura enamorados
- I. Drunk with Laura's Beauty
- II. Bello compuesto en Laura dividido
- II. Laura, Split in Two Beautiful Halves
- III. Mueran contigo, Laura, pues rnoriste
- III. Laura, Desire Dies with You
- Afterword: Translating Sor Juana
- About the Translators.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Painted Leaf Press, c1997.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-59467-2
- 9786612594670
- 0-299-18703-9
- OCLC:
- 610588513
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