Guadalupe Amor (Pita Amor)

Guadalupe Amor, known as Pita Amor, was born in Mexico City on 30 May 1918, the youngest of the seven children of an aristocratic family impoverished by the revolution. A film actress in her youth, she published her first book of verse in 1946, dedicated to Gabriela Mistral, and for a time became the most popular woman poet in the country, amid scandal and eccentricity. In 1961, her son, not yet two years old, drowned; she gradually withdrew. She died in Mexico City on 8 May 2000.

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• PoetryDécimas a DiosGuadalupe Amor (Pita Amor) · 1953not translated into EnglishLiterature