Alfonsina Storni, Poemas

Publisher Marketing: Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938), esta escritora argentina nacio en Suiza en 1892, en la region de habla italiana. Vivio en Rosario, estudio Magisterio en la Escuela Normal y fue profesora de arte dramatico, hizo alguna incursion en el teatro, pero lo mas conocido de su obra son sus libros de poemas. Comenzo su carrera literaria en 1916 con La inquietud del rosal, que recoge las sugestiones intimistas y sentimentales de un post-romanticismo, y publico El dulce dano (1918), Irremediablemente (1919) y Languidez (1920). Despues realizo viajes a Europa, en 1930 y 1934, que influenciaron en su obra, se sumo a este cambio, su azarosa vida amorosa y su lucha por el papel de la mujer en la sociedad de la epoca, ademas de manejar el tema de la sinceridad erotica. Publico en esta etapa Mundo de siete pozos (1934) y Mascarilla y trebol (1938). Escribe con menos canones, y con expresion libre y desprejuiciada. Se suicido en 1938 en Mar del Plata, sintiendo la impotencia ante el dolor producido por el cancer. La noche anterior a que se internara en el mar desde la playa La Perla, escribio un poema, que envio al diario argentino La nacion, y que fue publicado con su necrologica: "Voy a dormir," y que se cree estaba dirigida a su hijo." Contributor Bio:  Storni, Alfonsina Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938) is considered one of the most prominent voices in Latin American poetry of the twentieth century, and among women poets, second only, perhaps, to the Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral. From the start of her literary career Storni raised eyebrows for her controversial feminism, her indomitable honesty, and her barbed wit. Indeed she took on the role of enfant terrible with gusto, displaying a gleeful propensity for mockery and impish behavior. By the late 1920s and early 1930s, Storni was undoubtedly an established poet of considerable prestige and immense popularity. Her readings were attended by hundreds of adoring fans who not only purchased her books but also learned her poems by heart. She was a literary phenomenon most comparable perhaps to the American Edna St. Millay, with whom she shared, among other things, an urbane irony and a defiant yet ludic feminism. In 1935 Storni was unfortunately diagnosed with cancer. Her summers were spent on the seashore of Mar de Plata, an inspirational setting for many of her nature poems of this period. Though she was surely haunted by the specter of death, Storni galvanized the discipline and will to complete her last book of poems which many critics judged to be her crowning achievement, Mascarilla y trebol (Mask and Clover), published shortly before her suicide.