This chapter describes the development of Burgos's social, political, and creative consciousness during the 1930s. It focuses on her first poetry collection, Poema en veinte surcos (Poem in Twenty Furrows, 1938), where she creates images of routes, travel, and water as a way to escape containment. In Poema en veinte surcos, Burgos experimented with various styles of writing prevalent among Puerto Rican writers of the time, including telurismo and neocriollismo, the negrista poetry of Luis Palés Matos, and the eroticism of Luis Lloréns Torres. Her nomadic subject championing freedom and justice fundamentally and ideologically distinguishes her work and aligns her with the vanguardias. Eventually, the nomadic subject becomes a “form of political resistance to hegemonic, fixed, unitary, and exclusionary views of subjectivity.”