My Heart Flooded with Water: Selected Poems

Carefully selected from sevencollectionsand including a handful of poems nevercollectedthispoetry bookhonors the prestigious feminist poet Alfonsina Storni by presenting some of her best work in an unparalleledEnglish translation. This bilingual edition maintains the original poems in Spanish alongside the new translations and represents over 20 years of work by one of the most significant contributors to Latin American poetry in the 20th century. The nearly 80 poems include the poet's very last, I'm Going to Sleep, which was written just before her suicide after battling cancer.