The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural boldness of these prose-poems, especially the female-erotic prose pieces of her first book, make them an important moment in the history of...
The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a heali...
Gabriela Mistral Paul Burns Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres
Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), 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.
Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pabl...
Poems and prose by Latin America's first Nobel Prize laureate. "This beautiful anthology holds the first English translation of Gabriela Mistral's extraordinary poetry and prose... hidden to the mainstream no longer, here is the breathtaking lifework of a most gifted and enigmatic muse."--NAPRA Journal
Poems and prose by Latin America's first Nobel Prize laureate. "This beautiful anthology holds the first English translation of Gabriela Mistral's...
Gabriela Mistral Marjorie Agosin Jacqueline C. Nanfito
Exquisite word portraits of women by one of the past century's greatest women writers.
These recados--brief, descriptive essays--paint vivid pictures of some of the most extraordinary women of Mistral's generation--and give us insights into Mistral herself. In these pieces, Mistral infuses the traditionally objective essay form with the intimate and subjective, thereby creating an alternate space for women intellectuals in the public sphere. Her subjects range from her own beloved mother to well-known writers such as Victoria Ocampo and Emily Bronte, artists such as Chilean...
Exquisite word portraits of women by one of the past century's greatest women writers.
These recados--brief, descriptive essays--paint...
The Nobel Prize-winning poet Gabriela Mistral is celebrated by her native Chile as the ""mother of the nation"". These letters, published in Spanish in 2010 and now translated for the first time into English, provide insight into her work as a poet and illuminate her perspectives on politics, especially war and human rights. The correspondence also sheds light on the poet's personal life.
The Nobel Prize-winning poet Gabriela Mistral is celebrated by her native Chile as the ""mother of the nation"". These letters, published in Spanish i...
