Comments on: Poetry Saturdays: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

By: [Poem] Reading — Ink to Screen

[Poem] Reading — Ink to Screen — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:51:01 +0000

[...] The original, kick ass, no-holds barred poem can be found here. [...]

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:06:24 +0000

@Naoko: Sure!

By: Naoko

Naoko — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:10:34 +0000

I’d love to do a voice recording about this poem. Can I use it and link it back to you as the source? Thanks!

By: jennygadget

jennygadget — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:26:40 +0000

I love Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz! We read La Respuesta and several of her poems in the first-year seminar I took in college. We also read A Room of One’s Own and The Book of the City of Ladies. Yay! for women’s colleges and not treating women like an afterthought.

Cimorene, that’s one of my favorite lines (stanzas?) as well. It’s even more lovely in the original Spanish bc “money” and “pays money” is actually the same word (spelled the same?) so it’s even more wonderfully, elegantly symmetrical.

By: PetiteXL

PetiteXL — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:51:13 +0000

Woah… She’s got their number. Like the others, feeling a bit sad that this rings so true today.

By: Mackey

Mackey — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:32:57 +0000

It’s amazing sometimes how something can be timeless – it’s unfortunate that it describes womens’ oppression..

As Cimorene said – ‘…that shit could have been written by a woman in 2011 just as easily as by one in the 17th century’

By: Amnesia

Amnesia — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:03:15 +0000

Okay, I’ve been mostly ignoring the poetry posts until now, but clearly I’ve been missing out, if this poem is any indication.

This needs to be required reading in schools. A copy needs to be sent to every MRA that dares to enter the internet. And I will definitely be reading the poetry posts from now on.

By: PhDork

PhDork — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:47:27 +0000

I learned about Sor Juana from a college roommate who was reading her poetry and plays for a Spanish minor.

She was apparently the first female playwright in the “New World.” She was obviously awesome.

By: Cimorene

Cimorene — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:18:25 +0000

That shit is fucking awesome. How amazing is
“Or which is more to be blamed—
though both will have cause for chagrin:
the woman who sins for money
or the man who pays money to sin?”

SO AMAZING.

And now that I’m done exclaiming at the brilliance, I want to weep. Because that shit could have been written by a woman in 2011 just as easily as by one in the 17th century.

By: Blind Irish Pirate

Blind Irish Pirate — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:05:11 +0000

*standing ovation*

I would love to know this woman – especially her experience and background in life to make her write such truth.