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Julia Constanza Burgos García (February 17, 1914 – July 6, 1953), also known as Julia de Burgos, was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist, independista, Nuyorican, and teacher. [1]
The poem tells the story of a black Puerto Rican who "answers" a white-skinned Puerto Rican after the latter calls the Afro-Puerto Rican "black" and "big lipped." In his answer, the black man describes both his own African attributes while also describing the Caucasian attributes of the white Puerto Rican as well as that person's light-skinned daughter.
Dulce María Loynaz Muñoz (Havana, Cuba; 10 December 1902 – 27 April 1997) was a Cuban poet, and is considered one of the principal figures of Cuban literature.She was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1992.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Published in June 1924, the book launched Neruda to fame at the young age of 19 and is one of the most renowned literary works of the 20th century in the Spanish language.
He pleaded to her, "Bésame, que me muero," ("Kiss me for I am dying") and she refused, saying "No quiera Dios que yo falte a mi marido," ("God would not wish me to deceive my husband") "Por la pasión de Jesucristo os suplico que busques a otra, que de mi no hagais cuenta. Pues si a Dios no ha complacido, tampoco me complace a mi."
Ernestina Michels de Champourcín Morán de Loredo, was born into a Catholic and traditionalist family, [2] [3] which offered her a thorough education (she was taught a range of different languages) as part of an aristocratic and cultured family atmosphere.
Salomé Ureña Díaz de Henríquez (October 21, 1850 – March 6, 1897) was a Dominican poet and teacher, being one of the central figures of 19th-century lyrical poetry and advocator for women's education in the Dominican Republic, influenced by the positivist schools and the normal education of Eugenio María de Hostos, of whom she was an advantaged student.
Nellie (or Nelly) Francisca Ernestina Campobello Luna (November 7, 1900 – July 9, 1986) was a Mexican writer, notable for having written one of the few chronicles of the Mexican Revolution from a woman's perspective: Cartucho, which chronicles her experience as a young girl in Northern Mexico at the height of the struggle between forces loyal to Pancho Villa and those who followed Venustiano ...