Winétt de Rokha Author

Winett de Rokha (1894-1951) was the pen name of the Chilean poet Luisa Victoria Anabalon Sanderson. She published four collections of poetry – "Formas del sueno" (1927), "Cantoral" (1936), "Oniromancia" (1943) and "El valle pierde su atmosfera" (1949). The first two of these were written under the pseudonym Juana Ines de la Cruz, in homage to the famous 17th-century Mexican poet and nun. In 1916 she married Pablo de Rokha, who would become one of Chile's most famous poets. They founded the Communist and anti-fascist literary journal and publishing house Multitud, had nine children together, and mutually influenced each other's literary and political work in profound ways. This book was originally published inside Pablo's "Arenga sobre el arte" (Tirade on Art, 1949). Jessica Sequeira has published the novel A Furious Oyster, the story collection Rhombus and Oval, the essay collection Other Paradises: Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age and the hybrid work A Luminous History of the Palm. She has translated many books by Latin American authors, and in 2019 was awarded the Premio Valle-Inclan. Currently she lives between Chile and the UK, where she is based at the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge.