Sor Juana's Love Poems: In Spanish and English

by Juana Inés de la Cruz

Other authors: Joan Larkin (Translator), Jaime Manrique (Translator)

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Fiction. Poetry. HTML: 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 Inés 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.… (more)

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TERRIBLE translation. This edition is a waste of money unless you can read the original Spanish, in which case you might as well invest in a more exhaustive collection of Sor Juana's work.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Juana Inés de la Cruz	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Larkin, Joan	Translator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Manrique, Jaime	Translator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Fiction. Poetry. HTML:

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 Inés 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.

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