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.During 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 Guin's selection and translation will finally allow people in the North to hear the originality, power, purity, and intransigence of this great American voice.Le Guin has published five volumes of her own poetry, an English version of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, and a volume of mutual translation with the Argentine poet Diana Bellessi, The Twins, the Dream/Las Gemalas, El Sueño. Strongly drawn to Mistral's work as soon as she discovered it, Le Guin has been working on this translation for five years.

Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral

Literature & Fiction

GABRIELA MISTRAL

Poetry

Indiana University Press

The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America

Jorge Luís Borges

Miguel Ángel Asturias

Carlos Fuentes

OCTAVIO PAZ

José Donoso

JORGE AMADO

Julio Cortázar

Pablo-neruda

Avon/Books

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.
During 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 Guin's selection and translation will finally allow people in the North to hear the originality, power, purity, and intransigence of this great American voice.
Le Guin has published five volumes of her own poetry, an English version of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, and a volume of mutual translation with the Argentine poet Diana Bellessi, The Twins, the Dream/Las Gemalas, El Sueño. Strongly drawn to Mistral's work as soon as she discovered it, Le Guin has been working on this translation for five years.

History & Criticism

The Johns Hopkins University Press

These poems speak about the nature of the Chilean countryside, of its animals, its aromas, and its stars. These are verses that invite us to direct our gaze from the Earth to the sky, from the smallest things to the most magnificent. The rhymes and poems compiled in this anthology introduce children to the works of Gabriela Mistral, and allow them to enjoy this poetry that is infused with heart by the only female Latin American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
 Poemas que hablan de la naturaleza propia del paisaje chileno, de sus animales, de sus aromas y de sus astros. Versos que invitan a dirigir la mirada de la tierra al cielo, de lo mas pequeno a lo mas grandioso. Las rondas, poemas y jugarretas recogidas en este libro acercaran a los ninos y ninas a la obra de Gabriela Mistral, y les permitirán disfrutar de esa poesia;impregnada de cosas de corazon vinculada a la tradicion oral y el lenguaje folclorico.

Rondas, poemas y jugarretas /Rounds, Poems and Pranks (Serie Morada) (Spanish Edition)

Children's Books

Santillana Usa

Antologia de la Poesia Hispanoamericana Contemporanea 1914-1970 (Spanish Edition)

José Juan Tablada

Ramon Lopez Velarde

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cesar-vallejo

VICENTE HUIDOBRO

Macedonio Fernández

Mariano Brull

Oliverio Girondo

Alianza Editorial, S.A.

Cartas De Amor Y Desamor

Andres Bello

Tala (Spanish Edition)

LOSADA

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Lagar (Spanish Edition)

Lagar

Universidad Diego Portales

Inspired by the legendary Tales and Stories of the Past written by Charles Perrault in the 17th century, Gabriela Mistral wrote her own "Little Red Riding Hood," which was first published in 1924, in the poetry volume entitled Ternura. Written in verse, Mistral's version is faithful to the original, neither sweetening nor altering the ending. Editorial Amanuta has rediscovered this poem and published it in the form of an illustrated book that lends a contemporary aesthetic to this classic story. Illustrations by Paloma Valdivia. BOOK IN SPANISH

Caperucita Roja (Little Red Riding Hood in Spanish) Gabriela Mistral Version

Editorial Amanuta

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