ABSTRACT
Alfonsina Storni is widely known as a poet, but little known as a playwright. Born in Switzerland in 1892, Alfonsina gained recognition and praise for her poems, and usually appears in photographs and anthologies among the well-known writers and intellectuals of her time in Argentina, which became her home country in 1896. She published her work between 1916 and 1938, the year in which she committed suicide. Alfonsina's life and works were contemporary with those of three other famous women poets from neighboring Latin American countries, the Chilean Gabriela Mistral and two Uruguayans, Delmira Agustini and Juana de Ibarbourou. The coincidence of these four talented personalities make this period and these writers particularly relevant for the study of Latin American women's poetry, and women's studies in general.
