The intrinsic cohesiveness of Ana María Fagundo's body of work demonstrates a profound commitment to poetry that has established her mark in twentieth-century Spanish verse. Fagundo has also played a substantial role in the promotion of Spanish and Latin-American literatures through Alaluz, a journal of poetry, narratives, and essays, which she founded in 1969 and has directed and edited since. This journal has published the work of well-known authors, as well as more-experimental writers, from Spain and Latin America, including Vicente Aleixandre, Jorge Guillén, Nicanor Parra, and Ernesto Cardenal. Alaluz also gave women authors a voice long before feminism became popular. Moreover, Fagundo has written several articles and books on American and Spanish poets.

As Fagundo writes in the 1985 essay "Mi literatura es mía en mí" (My Literature Is Mine in Me), "La poesía parece haber estado siempre en m...