Excerpted from: Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la. 1998. The divine Narcissus: El divino Narciso. Patricia A. Peters and Renée Domeier, trans. and eds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Copyright © 1998 University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

To read more:

Paz, Octavio. 1988. Sor Juana. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Paz, Octavio. 1982. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o Las trampas de la fe. Barcelona: Editorial Seix Barral.