SOURCE: "Music Box," in Sor Juana or, the Traps of Faith, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, Belknap Press, 1988, pp. 307-25.
In the following essay, Paz traces the development of the villancico and surveys Cruz's poems in this genre.
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