Poems

The catalogue starts small on purpose: every poem arrives checked, with its source and its author. It grows with what you send us.

Baroque · 17th c.

Hombres necios que acusáisSor Juana Inés de la Cruz1689
Seventeen redondillas against the double standard, written in a convent in New Spain.

19th century

"Hope" is the thing with feathersEmily Dickinsonc. 1861
Hope as a bird that sings without words and never stops at all.

Modernismo · 20th c.

Canción de otoño en primaveraRubén Darío1905
The poem where modernismo watches itself grow old and refuses to forgive itself.

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