Alfonsina, Un viaje poético y teatral por la vida y la obra de Alfonsina Storni

Excerpt from La Pupila Insomne: Con un Bosquejo Biografico de Raul Roa Era Dlores Villena - anota Serpa me mujer de delicada belleza, rostro fino y gestos aristocraticos, que delatabdg/ la rancieda'd de su estirpe. Tenia los cabellos claros, azules los ojos y la voz melancol ca y blando, transida de ternura. Toda ella irradiaba simpatia, noble modestia y dulzurm Y asi...sa mantuvo hasta los dias postreros de su vida. NI siquiera la em fermedad implacable y tmturadora - que la llega al se pulcro pudo ag'siar la miel dotada, ademas, de una fertil y der - unacambio, es un posiiivistci. T-e'...

AMOR AMARGO Auténtico amor amargo de archilas de brillos mate. Era ese tren de expresión cuando conmigo bailabas. De cántaros y de fuentes estás llenando tu vida, con los raptos de tus dientes en una boca cerrada. Llegó a ser amor amargo de aspereza y de vagancias. Fueron armas de mujer, las supiste preferir al agua de mar tranquila sin tener fondo cruel. De cilindros envolventes, híbrido y nigromante, que después me supo a hiel.

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...

The first part of the book includes the work of Jorge Guillen, Vicente Aleixandre, Federico Garcia Lorca, Damaso Alonso, Luis Cernuda, and others. Critical essays on the social and cultural background of the works and studies of the poets themselves comprise the second part.