Name: Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (in English)
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Author: Gabriela Mistral
ISBN: 9780826328199

portada Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gabriela Mistral

Translated by

Ursula K. Le Guin

Publisher

University of New Mexico Press

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

407

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.8 x 16.2 x 3.1 cm

Weight

0.66 kg.

ISBN13

9780826328199

Edition No.

N/A

Synopsis "Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (in English)"

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.

Gabriela Mistral

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(Vicuña, Valle del Elqui 1889 - Nueva York, 1957) Seudónimo de Lucila de María Godoy Alcayaga. Fue poetisa, diplomática y docente desde muy temprana edad. La publicación de Desolación le dio a Mistral reconocimiento y prestigio internacional, por lo que pasó a ser considerada como una de las mayores promesas de la literatura latinoamericana y una de las principales referentes de la literatura chilena e hispanoamericana del siglo XX. En 1945 el obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura y solo después de seis años, el Premio Nacional de Literatura.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929 - 2018) cultivó tanto la narrativa, en forma de novela y cuento, como la poesía y la crítica. Su amplia obra ha merecido múltiples galardones, entre los que destacan el National Book Award, el American Book Award y numerosos premios Hugo, Nebula, Jupiter y Locus.

En 1991 recibió el Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, otorgado por la American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, y en 2001, el SF Hall of Fame a toda su trayectoria. En el otro viento, la última novela de Terramar incluida en el volumen Historias de Terramar, recibió en 2002 el Premio World Fantasy. En 2003 fue elegida Gran Maestro por la SFWA, la asociación norteamericana de escritores de ciencia ficción.

Ella misma se describía como una persona «feminista, conservacionista, ecologista, norteamericana, apasionadamente comprometida con la literatura, paisaje y vida de la Costa Oeste».

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