Poetry
Himno a la Luna
Not translated into English
María Josefa García Granados · 1830
Synopsis
A poem of 1830 that the critic Agustín Mencos Franco ranked among the few serious pieces by the author, in contrast to her satires, by far the more numerous. Neither its lines nor its movement are known.
Context
The poem dates from 1830, ten years after the independence of Central America. Its author never published a book: her verses circulated in the newspapers she ran or wrote for, under the masculine pseudonym of Juan de las Viñas. With her friend José Batres Montúfar she founded a polemical sheet, Cien veces una, to answer the one that attacked them. Her satires targeted the liberals in power, which earned her lasting enemies, and her texts mixed politics with a crudeness that scandalised.
Who it is for
In Spanish, a few stanzas. The poem belongs to the author's serious vein, less known than her satirical verve.
Prizes and reception
The poem appears in anthologies among the six or seven pieces that survive of hers; she is regarded as the first woman of letters of the country.