A Gabriela Mistral ReaderPoems 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 |
Contents
Gabriela Mistral the Restless Soul | 17 |
Translators Note | 25 |
The Artists Decalogue | 38 |
To See Him Again | 44 |
The Sea | 147 |
The Lark | 153 |
An Owl | 160 |
The Little New Moon | 167 |
Chile | 173 |
Something About the Quechuan People | 179 |
Alfonsina Storni | 189 |
The Tropical Destiny of South America | 198 |
The Argentine Pampa | 205 |
An Invitation to the Work of Rainer Maria Rilke | 211 |
Write | 222 |
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