Juana de Ibarbourou wrote Uruguayan poetry about the body, love, nature, ageing and the changing experience of time. Early collections such as Las lenguas de diamante and Raíz salvaje are sensuous and closely tied to plants, seasons and physical desire, while later work becomes more reflective and conscious of mortality. Her poems often use direct images and musical language rather than dense philosophical abstraction. Ibarbourou's work suits readers of Latin American lyric poetry, modernismo, nature poetry and twentieth-century writing about femininity, desire and ageing. Read more Less
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