The Life and Poetry of Julia de Burgos (1975)
1975 · Short film · 26 min
Synopsis
A docudrama about the life and work of the highly esteemed Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos. Follows her life from an impoverished childhood in Carolina, Puerto Rico, through her political involvement as a young woman in the Puerto Rican nationalist movement, to her subsequent exile in Cuba and in New York City, where she died in anonymity in 1953. Features pictorial interpretations of her major poems. Spanish dialogue with English subtitles
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Details
- Running time
- 26 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Educational Films, Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Burgos, Julia de, 1914-1953
- Poets, Puerto Rican