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In December 1938, at the age of twenty-four, Julia de Burgos self-published her first collection of poetry and traveled around Puerto Rico selling copies. She was raising money to help cover the cost of her mother's cancer treatments.
Puerto Rico's most famous poet and greatest literary figure, Julia de Burgos is as significant a cultural figure for the island commonwealth as the artist Frida Kahlo is for Mexico.
