Sor Juana's Love Poems
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For the first time ever, here is an exquisite sampling of love poems, some of them clearly addressed to women, by the visionary and passionate genius of Mexican letters, the 17th century nun Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz translated into the poetic idiom of our own time by poets Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique. The poems included in this selection have been culled from Sor Juana's extensive body of poetry on the many kinds of love. 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.
Foreword: Sor Juana and Love9When a Slave Gives Birth13My Divine Lysi17I Beg You, Senora23Don't Go, My Darling. I Don't Want This to End Yet33This Afternoon, My Darling, I Kept Talking37Love Opened a Mortal Wound41Look at Me, Alcino. See the Chain?45Have You Lost Your Mind, Alcino?49Inez, I Have to Gloat: You're Gorgeous53Inez, When Someone Tells You You're a Bitch57Portia, What Passion, What Blind Pain61Divine Laura, My Life Was Always Yours65Elegy: I. Drunk with Laura's Beauty71Elegy: II. Laura Split in Two Beautiful Halves73Elegy: III. Laura, Desire Dies with You75Afterword: Translating Sor Juana77About the Translators82
