While known mostly for her amatory poetry, Julia de Burgos was also a versatile and complex writer fully engaged in feminist and political activism. Attuned with neo-Romanticism, her poetry combines erotic and intimate moments with proletarian nationalistic verses, which favored the socialist agenda of Puerto Rican intellectuals in the 1930s. A fundamental concern of this generation of writers was to examine the historical process of Puerto Rico in relation to both Latin America and the prolonged colonial presence of Spain until 1898 and then of the United States from that year onward. Burgos pursued her egalitarian social vision from a feminist point of view, resulting in a vast exploration of the social and psychological condition of women of her era. Accordingly, her poetry has been classified within the so-called feminine poetry of Latin American Postmodernismo, which includes representative writers such as Delmira Agustini (Uruguay), Gabriela Mistral (Chile), Alfonsina Storni...