Free topic: Alfonsina Storni

Since teenager I like a lot to read novels and poetry. This year I realized that I read almost men. I wanted to read a woman. In july I found an anthology of Alfonsina Storni’s poetry in the house of an uncle. That day I read some poems. I liked them a lot.

Alfonsina Storni was an argentinian poet and journalist. She was born in the year 1892. Her first book was published in the year 1916. Her poetry, in her beginnings, is very very melancholic, a constant pain for love. But after she enter to feminism circles, that experience changed her poetry. In those year, she was more confrontational, in a world extremely machist, dominated by men.

She was a single mother, added to her feminism, she was target of critics. I like her a lot, I loved her confrontational personality, and helped me to see another visión of poetry, besides of men’s vision. With her poems, I can sense her pain of live in a men´s world. I recommend to everybody to read her work.