SOURCE: “Alfonsina Storni: A Feminist Reading of Her Poetry,” in Feminist Readings on Spanish and Latin-American Literature, L. P. Condé and S. M. Hart, editors, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991, pp. 121–30.

In the following essay, Fishburn discusses Storni's poetry in terms of “the nature of her feminism” by “focusing on different aspects of femininity in her poetic output.”

Alfonsina Storni enjoys the well earned acclaim of being one of the first and foremost Latin-American feminist poets. Thus, Beatriz Sarlo places her at the head of a list of women que abrieron camino' to whom she dedicates her book El imperio de los sentimientos (next in line is Victoria Ocampo).¹ Similarly, Irene Matthews, in a recently published article on Gabriela Mistral, notes that Alfonsina Storni is included in most reviews of literary feminism in Latin America as among a handful of ‘attractive standard bearers whose spite, charm and intelligence...