Las Lenguas de Diamante. Con ilustraciones de Raul Soldi. Losada, S.A. 1969.

On Folio, (40.5 x 28.8 cm), 103 pp., 3 h., 15 plates. Publisher's rustic binding, with its cradle. Tribute edition.

The diamond tongues, the first book published by Juana de Ibarbourou, came out in 1918. It is a collection of poems written in her early twenty-two years, with a prologue by the Argentine novelist Manuel Gálvez. Her break with the modernism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries earned her instant success, and the soon title "Juana de América. The theme is loving, in erotic praise of the body and in fusion with nature, forgetting the moral restrictions established by the church. Written in direct, simple language, it avoids the elaborate metaphors typical of modernism. He wrote in the prologue Gálvez, who recognizes in Juana's verses “a healthy, strong, youthful, intrepid, natural love” expressing “beautifully a natural sense of love and life.” Miguel de Unamuno, in response to Juana's sending makes him of a copy of the first edition, he said: "... I was pleasantly surprised by the very chaste spiritual nakedness of your poetry, so fresh and so fiery at the same time."

This edition, published 51 years after the first, contains illustrations by Raúl Soldi, 15 plates plus the illustration on the cover, visually representing the highly erotic world of this collection of poems.

Juana de Ibarbourou, whose maiden name is Fernández Morales (Melo, Uruguay, 1892 - Montevideo, 1979), poet, is considered one of the most personal voices of the Latin American lyric of the early twentieth century, whose poems tend to sentimental exaltation of loving dedication, motherhood, physical beauty and nature. In 1929 she received, in the Hall of Lost Steps of the Legislative Palace in Montevideo, the title of "Juana de América" ​​from the hand of Juan Zorrilla de San Martín in front of a multitude of poets and personalities.

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