Bøker av Juana Ines de la Cruz

Reprint. Previously published: Madrid: Impr. de A. Gonðcalez de Reyes, a costa de F. Laso, 1714.

Latin America's great poet rendered into English by the world's most celebrated translator of Spanish-language literature.

A bilingual collection of revealing autobiographical sonnets, secular love poems, playful verses, reverential religious poetry, and lyrical tributes to New World culture. The text also includes a translation of Sor Juana's masterpiece the "Primero Sueno".

"Her language is a lesson in speaking to the moment and to the centuries both, and Edith Grossman captures its suggestiveness with a calm elegance."-Alberto Rios, author of The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body.