La esfinge de la escritura: la poesia etica de Blanca Varela.(Book review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

La esfinge de la escritura: la poesia etica de Blanca Varela. By SILVIA BERMUDEZ. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta. 2005. 151 pp. $19.95. ISBN 978-1-58871-066-6.

Though regarded as a major contemporary poet in Peru, Blanca Varela (b. 1926) has not received the acclaim she deserves outside her country of origin, and one of the merits of Silvia Bermudez's latest book is that it shows just how unfair this is. The issue of women's writing continues to elicit heated and occasionally virulent debate in Latin America (as I discovered to my chagrin one day in Lima in 1999 when I found ...

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