Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz

Juana Inés de la Cruz was acclaimed in her time as the "Phoenix of Mexico", America's tenth muse; a generation later she was forgotten. Rediscovered 300 years later, her works were reissued and she is now considered one of the finest Hispanic poets of the seventeenth century. Her works speak directly to our concern for the freedom of women to realize themselves artistically and intellectually. This anthology contains a selection of her poems.

The battle is still raging, and it’s out-and-out war. Jake, the other Animorphs, and Ax have found a way to slow the Yeerks down, but now the Yeerks have decided the best way to win is to just destroy everything and everyone who gets in their way. Just when things look more than hopeless, Jake and the others discover help where they least expected: Taxxons. Creatures so foul and heartless it’s almost hard to believe that they are capable of having any feelings. But Jake and the others soon discover that the Taxxon resistance has its own problems with the Yeerks. And, for once, it looks like Earth may have a chance....

Cobb has translated Sor Juana's seventy Petrarchan (or traditional Spanish) sonnets into Petrarchan sonnets in English, closely following her syntax and phrasing. Follows the numbering, order, and categorization of poems in the standard multi-volume compilation of Sor Juana's writings edited by Alfonso Méndez Plancarte.

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.

"Unabridged edition and brief historical study of the first volume of Sor Juana's works, originally published in 1689 in Madrid"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Adentrarse en la escritura poética de Efraín Jara Idrovo supone acceder al asombro, al descubrimiento de renovadas propuestas teóricas, temáticas; escenarios donde el hombre, más allá de mostrarse fascinado ante las evidencias del mundo, desacraliza la realidad, cuestiona el transcurrir del tiempo, admite la inequívoca presencia de la soledad, la nostalgia, la muerte y, desde estas reflexiones, propone la reconfiguración existencial que no sólo particulariza su obra, sino, que lo ubica como uno de los poetas ecuatorianos e hispanoamericanos más trascendentes de nuestro tiempo.

"First complete English translation of Sor Juana's brilliant comedia, Los empeños de una casa (1989), in which she subverts the conventions of gender and Golden Age drama to suit her own feminine perspectives. Castaño, the male character disguised as a woman, performs the construction of gendered identity. Notes help with the 17th-century references and baroque Spanish. Bibliography of primary and secondary sources. This script served for premier productions in March 1996 at Oklahoma City Univ. and at the International Siglo de Oro Theater Festival in El Paso. The annotated translation is clear but its modern registers lose the baroque flavor and wit of the original, in contrast to Peden's translation"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"In this hilarious seventeenth-century cloak-and-sword comedy, eight characters become entangled in a web of deceitful and sincere promises when they find themselves thrown together in the house of Don Pedro de Arellano. As they struggle to fulfill or escape these commitments, the action involves female rivalry, love triangles, and confusion of identities. All the characters scurry about the house, some manipulating others like pawns on a game board. In the end, the passive characters regain the initiative and make way for the comic solution of multiple marriages."--BOOK JACKET.

Drama escrito en poesía en que "... la Gentilidad y la Synagoga, seguidas de lucido cortejo, representación del mundo antiguo pagano y del mundo antiguo hebreo, rinden homenaje a Cristo en la figura celestial del Narciso." -- cover.