Book description
The poems in Unmade Hearts: My Sor Juana are a call-and-response. Part translation, part conversation, and part footnote, this collection considers how desire and divinity are intimately acquainted. Tactically, the experience of it is akin to reading someone's private text messages; on one side July Westhale's translations of Sor Juana…
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1 author picked Unmade Hearts as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is, simply put, a lyrical conversation between two gifted poets. Westlake, like I did, knew that translations of Sor Juana’s poetry just did not do her justice. When writing about Sor Juana, we need to travel a different path; we need to listen to the whispers from centuries ago.
I listened and wrote a biographical novel; Westlake listened and shared the conversation with us. All I can say is “Yes!”
From MaryAnn's list on the mystical Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
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