Arte para la gente: Alfonsina Storni

In honor of International Women’s Day this past Monday we continue out look at women in the Americas with one of the region’s greatest poets.

Born in Switzerland and raised in Argentina, Alfonsina Storni was inspired by her own personal experiences to write poems on gender inequality, love, and death. Works like “Hombre pequeñito” (“Little Man”) and “Tú me quieres blanca” (“You Want Me Pure”) blasted male hypocrisy and the oppression of women, respectively. Storni has reached near mythical status in the over seven decades since her suicide and her work have influenced writers throughout the Americas.

“Voy a dormir” ("I'm going to sleep") was Storni’s last poem before she killed herself in 1937. It is, undoubtedly, one of her finest works:

Online Sources- YouTube, poesia-inter.net (translated), Wikipedia