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Julia de Burgos

Julia de Burgos, née Julia Constanze Burgos García, was born on February 17, 1914, in Carolina, Puerto Rico and was one of 13 children. Her father was a farmer and National Guardsman. Her family struggled financially, and

Poem with the Final Tune

by Julia de Burgos (1914–53)

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Are you asking where I'm going with these sad faces

and the bubbling of wounded veins on my forehead?

I'm going to cast roses into the sea,

to vanish under waves higher than the birds,

to pull out roads that by now had burrowed through me like roots …

 I'm going to give up stars, 
 and dews, 
 and the brief rivulets where I loved the passion that ravaged my mountains, 
 and a special cooing 

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson once bragged of making 2,000 pounds from writing poetry; however, he identified one American poet who topped him, earning 3,000. Who was that poet?

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