Poemas de amor / Love Poems | Idea Vilari�o
Translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval Eight years before Sylvia Plath published Ariel, the Uruguayan poet Idea Vilari�o released Poemas de Amor, a collection of confessional, passionate poetry dedicated to the novelist Juan Carlos Onetti. Both of her own merit and as part of the Uruguayan writers group the Generation of �45�which included Onetti, Mario Benedetti, Amanda Berenguer, and Ida Vitale�Vilari�o is an essential South American poet, and part of a long tradition of Uruguayan women poets. Vilari�o and Onetti�s love affair is one of the most famous in South American literature. Poemas de Amor is an intense book, full of poems about sexuality and what it means to be a woman, and stands as a testament to both the necessity and the impossibility of love. This translation brings these highly personal poems to English speaking audiences for the first time side-by-side with the original Spanish language versions.
Poemas de amor / Love Poems | 
