Dulce María Loynaz (1902-1997)
The Cuban poet Dulce María Loynaz was born to an affluent family in la Havana, which provided her with home school and university education, travels to different continents, and important contacts within literary figures such as Federico García Lorca and Gabriela Mistral. Although Loynez never lived in exile, scholars believe she exiled herself (internal exile) by withdrawing from public life and writing (Del Valle Schorske, 2017). Loynaz received the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1992) and was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Cuba in 1987. The poem "Quiéreme entera" belongs to her poetry book Versos 1920-1938, published in 1938.
- Del Valle Schorske, Carina. "The Internal Exile of Dulce María Loynaz." The New Yorker. August 16, 2017. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-internal-exile-of-dulce-maria-loynaz.
Quiéreme Entera
Si me quieres, quiéreme entera,
no por zonas de luz o sombra.
si me quieres, quiéreme negra
y blanca. Y gris, y verde, y rubia,
morena,
quiéreme día,
quiéreme noche...
Y madrugada en la ventana abierta!
Si me quieres, no me recortes:
Quiéreme toda...o no me quieras!
A Woman in Her Garden by ISBN: 9781893996557Publication Date: 2002-11-01...Loynaz established her reputation as a poet in the first half of the 20th century. After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, she retreated to her house, vowing to never write poetry again and refusing to leave the island of her birth. Like a Cuban Emily Dickinson, she lived out the -remainder of her life in seclusion. A Woman in Her Gardenpresents a bilingual selection of work from all phases of her career. Judith Kermanis professor of humanities at Saginaw Valley State College in Michigan.
