Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral.

Description

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 America.

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Series Statement

• Hispanic Foundation publications

Other Editions

• Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral.Published for the Library of Congress by the Johns Hopkins Press1971-01-01
• Selected Poems of Gabriela MistralIndiana University Press1957-01-01
• Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral.Published for the Library of Congress by the Johns Hopkins Press1971-01-01
• Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral [pseud.]Indiana University Press1972-01-01
• Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral.Published for the Library of Congress by Johns Hopkins Press1972-01-01
• Selected Poems of Gabriela MistralPaperbackIndiana Univ Pr1974-06-01