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Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
Le Guin
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Description for Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
Paperback. The breadth and depth of Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistrals poetry is passionately translated to English by Le Guin in this landmark bilingual edition. Translator(s): Le Guin, Ursula K. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 227 x 31. Weight in Grams: 684.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826328199
SKU
V9780826328199
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About Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin has published poetry, short fiction, criticism, children's books, and eighteen novels.
Reviews for Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
A simply outstanding addition to any personal or academic poetry collection, Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral is an extensive anthology of poetry by Gabriela Mistral who is the first Latin American writer to earn the Nobel Prize in literature. These free-verse poems are presented side-by-side in their original Spanish and expertly translated into English by Ursula K. Le Guin."—Wisconsin Bookwatch ... Read more