Poetry
Cenizas de Italia
Not translated into English
María Cruz · 1905
Synopsis
The collection of poems that the author published in her lifetime. Commentators date to its publication the moment when her manner moves from Romanticism to Modernism. Its contents are not known.
Context
The author's poems and chronicles first appeared in the newspapers and reviews of Central and South America; this book is what she drew from them. Commentators place the turning point of her writing in 1905: what precedes bears the romanticism she owed to Domingo Estrada, what follows belongs to modernism. A second volume appeared posthumously in French, Lettres de l'Inde, in 1916. It took until 1960 and the return of her remains to Guatemala for the University of San Carlos to gather her poems, in an edition prepared by María Albertina Gálvez. No available source describes the contents of the 1905 collection.
Who it is for
In Spanish. The volume is unobtainable, and it is through the 1961 university edition that these poems are read today.
Prizes and reception
No prize is attested for this title. The author, however, was read and commented on by David Vela, César Brañas and Antonio Batres Jáuregui.