Alfonsina Storni was born in Sala Capriasca in the Swiss canton of Ticina on May 22, 1892. At the age of four, she moved with her parents to Argentina. She lived in Santa Fe, Rosario, and Buenos Aires. She ended her life by suicide, drowning herself in the Perla Beach area of El Mar de Plata on October 25, 1938. Alfonsina Storni located herself in the middle of two epochs: modernism and avant-garde. However, she established a base upon which postmodernism could be constructed. Other influential poets with whom she has been affiliated or considered an inspiration include Delmira Agustini, Juana de Ibarbourou, Gabriela Mistral, Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, and Dulce Maria Loynaz.

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