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without knowing
What my song means,
And whether the listening world
Is amazed or wounded.

References
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Cartas ineditas
. Madrid: Fundación Madrid, 1975.
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Poemas.
Barcelona: Linkgua Ediciones, 2007.
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Sab
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Sab and Autobiography
. Trans. and ed. by Nina M. Scott. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993.
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    Bravo-Villasante, Carmen.
Una vida rómantica—La Avellaneda
. Barcelona: EDHASA, 1967.
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    Harter, Hugh A.
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
. Boston: Twayne, 1981.
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    Heredia, José María.
Antología Herediana
. Havana: Imprenta El Siglo, 1939.
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Obra poética
. Havana: Letras Cubanas, 1993.
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Selected Poems
. Trans. Angel Aparicio Laurencio. Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1970.
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    Lazo, Raimundo.
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, la mujer y la poetisa lírica
. Mexico City: Editorial Porrúa, 1990.
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    Pastor, Brígida M.
Fashioning Feminism in Cuba and Beyond: The Prose of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

Acknowledgments
    I thank God for the magic of words that travel across centuries and oceans.
    Lifelong love and thanks to Curtis—without you, I would be unable to write.
    I am grateful to my editor, Reka Simonsen, and the entire publishing team at Harcourt, especially Jeannette Larson, Lisa DiSarro, Jennifer Groves, Elizabeth Tardiff, Amy Carlisle, and Adah Nuchi.

About the Author
    M ARGARITA E NGLE is a Cuban American poet and novelist whose work has been published in many countries. Her books include the Newbery Honor–winning
Surrender Tree, The Poet Slave of Cuba, Tropical Secrets, The Firefly Letters,
and
Hurricane Dancers.
She lives with her husband in Northern California. Visit her website at www.margaritaengle.com .

Footnotes
    1. Often confused with his cousin, the Cuban French poet José María de Heredia (1842–1905)
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