Pita Love

Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein (Mexico City, May 30, 1918 - Ibidem, May 8, 2000), known as Pita Amor, was a writer and poetess.

Biography and career

Her parents were Emmanuel Amor Subervielle and Carolina Schmidtlein García Teruel. She was the youngest of seven siblings. She dabbled in film and theater before she was young, rather than in literature. She was also an actress and model for prominent photographers and painters, including Diego Rivera, Juan Soriano and Raúl Anguiano. She was also a friend of Frida Kahlo, María Félix, Gabriela Mistral, Salvador Novo, Pablo Picasso, Juan Rulfo, Alfonso Reyes and Elena Garro, among others. In her poetry she addresses her themes such as loneliness, emptiness and God. Her texts always written in the first person, a clear influence of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Francisco de Quevedo and Luis de Góngora is observed.

Controversial woman due to her way of being and her way of life. She had an overwhelming personality, who did not allow herself to be dominated by anyone. She never went unnoticed. She was a woman who lived intensely; she accepted pleasures and bitterness alike ^{[citation needed ]} . Her first public scandal was at the age of 18 when she became the lover of José Madrazo, a rich 60-year-old rancher, owner of the bull ranch La Punta with whom she had a long relationship that opened an era of provocation to the world.

Beautiful, passionate and controversial, she was poetically sponsored by Alfonso Reyes, who spoke about her "(...) and no hateful comparisons, here it is a mythological case". But Pita also went from scandal to scandal^{[citation required]}, she was involved in romances with bullfighters, painters, artists and writers, although in the same way She was a precursor along with Carmen Mondragón of what would later be called female liberation^{[citation required]}.

When she was 41 years old she decided to have a son, who she decided to give into custody to her older sister, Carito. However, Manuelito, as his son's name was, drowned in a pool of water at the age of one. This event caused a great crisis in her. She reappears in the seventies, as an insolent and carried away but different woman. After ten years, in 1974 she gave a recital at the Ateneo Español. She recited Mexican poetry, from Sor Juana to Pita, passing through Salvador Díaz Mirón, Manuel José Othón, Manuel González Montesinos, Alfonso Reyes, Enrique González Martínez, Renato Leduc, Xavier Villaurrutia, Ramón López Velarde, Roberto Cabral del Hoyo. The recital was a great success, she returned to give interviews for television.

Pita Amor was not just another poet, but she knew how to earn the name of muse not only for intellectuals, but also for politicians and entertainers. With an attractive and imposing personality, with the madness of her friend Salvador Dalí and the rudeness of María Félix, but yes, with the equanimity of Ricardo Garibay and the extravagances of Juan José Arreola. The poet Pita Amor, the real and true eleventh muse.

A negative aspect in his life was his habit of attacking people with his cane for any triviality. It is said that Monsiváis himself was the victim of one of such attacks that remained unpunished.

Personal life and death

She was the aunt of the writer Elena Poniatowska and the diplomat Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor.

He died in 2000, due to respiratory arrest caused by pneumonia that afflicted him in the final years of his life.

Work

• "I am my house" (1946) dedicated to her great friend, also poet Gabriela Mistral
• "doubted door" (1947)
• "Circle of anguish" (1948)
• "Polvo" (1949)
• "Give me God" (1953). Economic Culture Fund, Tezontle Collection.
• "Another book of love" (1955)
• "Bringing God out of the fire" (1958). Economic Culture Fund, Tezontle Collection. Dedicated to José Madrazo
• "All the centuries of the world" (1959). Editorial Grijalbo
• "As Queen of Baraja" (1966). Editorial Fournier.
• "Fuga de Negras" (1966). Editorial Fournier. Dedicated to Carolina Amor de Fournier, Dolores Puche, Dr. José Puche, Antonio Peláez and Enrique de Rivas.
• "Pita Amor Zoo" (1975). Editorial V Centuries. Dedicated to Rodolfo Chávez Parra.
• "The bitter tears of Beatriz Sheridan" (1981). Editorial Katun.
• "It has given me to write sonnets..." (1981). Editorial Katun.
• "Letanies" (1983). Editorial Domés. Dedicated to Don José Amor de Ferreira.
• "48 Veces Pita" (1983). Editorial Posada.
• "La Jungle" (1984). Misrachi Art Gallery. Dedicated to Carolina Amor de Fournier
• "I own the Universe" (1984).
• "My Crimes" (1986). FEM. Dedicated to Henri Donnadieu.
• "Liras" (1990). Dedicated to Martha Reyes Spying.