Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : selected works / translated by Edith Grossman ; introduction by Julia Alvarez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Grossman, Edith, 1936-2023, translator.

Alvarez, Julia, writer of introduction.

Local Philadelphia: Julia de Burgos Bookstore at Taller Puertorriqueño Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

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

Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Spanish poetry--Translations into English.

Spanish poetry.

Poems (Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister).

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Translations

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 216 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2015]

Language Note:

Translated to English from Spanish.

Summary:

Sor Juana (1651-1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age. This volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works: "First Dream," her longest poem and the one that showcases her prodigious intellect and range, and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz," her epistolary feminist defense--evocative of Mary Wollstonecraft and Emily Dickinson--of a woman's right to study and to write. Thirty other works--playful ballads, extraordinary sonnets, intimate poems of love, and a selection from an allegorical play with a distinctive New World flavor--are also included.

Puerto Rican master artist, Antonio Martorell Cardona, introduces colors with a special selection of his works from throughout his career.

"Del gran maestro artista puertorriqueño, Antonio Martorell Cardona, llega esta joya de libro para la niñez introduciendo los colores con una selección especial de sus obras de a lo largo de su carrera artística." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Ballads

Recondillas

Epigrams

Décimas

Sonnets

First dream

A letter from Sor Filotea to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Response of the poet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780393351880

0393351882

9780393241754

0393241750

OCLC:

939858079