Water Lilies

Poetry and prose by Spanish women presented here in both English and Spanish. A dazzling sampler, Water Lilies brings to light a rich and until now largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish and English and located within a critical, biographical, and historical overview. Here are five centuries of writing by Spanish women, the unknown recovered from obscurity, the well-known seen as