Description: Product Description : Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) The first Nobel Prize in literature to be awarded to a Latin American writer went to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral Famous and beloved during her lifetime all over Latin America and in Europe Mistral has never been known in North America as she deserves to be The reputation of her more flamboyant and accessible friend and countryman Pablo Neruda has overshadowed hers and she has been officially sentimentalized into a poetess of children and motherhood Translations and even selections of her work in Spanish have tended to underplay the darkness the strangeness and the raging intensity of her poems of grief and pain the yearning power of her evocations of the Chilean landscape the stark music of her Round Dances the visionary splendor of her Hymns of AmericaDuring her lifetime Mistral published four books Desolation Tenderness Clearcut and Winepress These are included in the Complete Nobel edition published in Madrid the Poem of Chile her last book was printed years after her death Le Guin includes poems from all five books in this volume with particular emphasis on the later work The intelligence and passion of Le Guins selection and translation will finally allow people in the North to hear the originality power purity and intransigence of this great American voiceLe Guin has published five volumes of her own poetry an English version of Lao Tzus Tao Te Ching and a volume of mutual translation with the Argentine poet Diana Bellessi The Twins the DreamLas Gemalas El Sueo Strongly drawn to Mistrals work as soon as she discovered it Le Guin has been working on this translation for five years( it is an used product )
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Brand: University of New Mexico Press
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ISBN-10: 826328199
ISBN-13: 9780826328199
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Edition: Bilingual
No. of Pages: 431
Type: Books
Book Title: Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
Number of Pages: 431 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 1.3 in
Topic: General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 24 Oz
Author: Gabriela Mistral
Item Length: 9 in
Book Series: Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Ser.
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
