Poetry
Décimas a Dios
Not translated into English
Guadalupe Amor (Pita Amor) · 1953
Synopsis
A monologue in décimas addressed to God, in which the poet questions his existence without managing to believe in it. She calls him “invención admirable, hecha de ansiedad humana”, asks him why he remains impalpable and refuses to come when she calls, recognises herself as made of mud and guilty, pleads, accuses and bargains in turn. The desire to believe keeps running up against doubt, in a classical form kept up from one end of the book to the other.
Context
The collection appeared in 1953 from the Fondo de Cultura Económica in Mexico City, and went through two new editions as early as 1954, then a fourth, expanded, from Fournier in 1975. The poet Margarita Michelena reviewed it in the daily Novedades as early as August 1953. The question of God runs through almost all of the author's work, but this book and a 1958 collection pose it most clearly, between mysticism and sacrilege.
Who it is for
Short stanzas, in a simple and direct language, made for reading aloud; a few pieces translated in a journal, no translation of the collection into French or English.
Prizes and reception
Her most successful, most discussed and most acclaimed book, reissued several times in her lifetime.
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