Description: Gabriella Mistral : Selected Poems, Paperback by Burns, Paul (TRN); Ortiz-Carboneres, Salvador (TRN); Burns, Pat (INT), ISBN 0856687642, ISBN-13 9780856687648, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Gabriela Mistral (1), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), and this selection of her poetry is designed to introduce her to an English-speaking public. Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the Elqui valley in the 'little north' of Chile, she became a schoolteacher at the age of fifteen and went on to become an educator of international renown, an architect of educational reform in Mexico, and a cultural administrator at the League of Nations. She began publishing prose and verse pieces in newspapers and reviews at about the same age. Four major collections of her poems were published in her lifetime: Desolacion (Desolation) in 1922, Ternura (Tenderness) in 1924, Tala (Felling) in 1938, and Lagar (Wine Press) in 1954, followed by Poema de Chile published after her death. Poems from each of these five collections are included here. The landscape and people of her native Chile are a constant theme in her work, even though she lived most of her adult life away from Chile, largely as a consul - unpaid for many years - in Europe, Brazil, and the ., where she died. Her great love of children, who were the main preoccupation of her life and whom she both understood and respected; motherhood, and her lack of it; loss of people she loved; religious faith, tested and at times unorthodox, are other abiding themes. Her language is direct, passionate, rooted in local usage. The whole of her work, in prose as well as in verse, is a reflection of the absolute integrity of her life.
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Book Title: Gabriela Mistral: Selected Poems
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication Year: 2006
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: Caribbean & Latin American, European / Spanish & Portuguese, General
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Genre: Poetry, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Item Length: 8.3 in
Author: Paul Burns, Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres
Book Series: Aris and Phillips Hispanic Classics Ser.
Item Width: 5.8 in
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