A bilingual edition of writings by Latin America's finest baroque poet
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote her most famous prose work, La Respuesta a Sor Filotea, in 1691 in response to her bishop's injunction against her intellectual pursuits. A passionate and subversive defense of the rights of women to study, to teach, and to write, it predates by almost a century and a half serious writings on any continent about the position and education of women.
Also included in this wide-ranging selection is a new translation of Sor Juana's masterpiece, the...

Este libro contiene poemas dedicados a celebridades; religiosos; loas, lrico-dramticas; poemas "personales" y los poemas picos "Neptuno Alegrico" y "La Razn de la fbrica alegrica y aplicacin de la fbula." This book contains poems on religious themes, tributes to celebrated figures, "personal" poems, lyrical-dramatic verse, and epic poems such as "The Allegorical Neptune" and "Reason of the Allegorical Construction and Application of the Fable."