Contributions

  • Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. - Contributor

Publication

1962 - Indiana University Press, Bloomington

Language

English

Word Count

29,750 words, Guess

Page Count

119 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPQ8097 G6 A24 1962
  • LCCPQ

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Indiana University poetry series

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