Description
Book SynopsisGabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English.
Trade Review...a highly recommended no-nonsense introduction to the work of Mistral'
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Desolation:
- Rodin's the Thinker, For the Hebrew People, The Lone Child, Ballad, The Sonnets of Death, prayer, The Bones of the Dead, Patagonian Landscape, To the Clouds, autumn, Summit
- II. Tenderness
- Rocking, Discovery, Mexican Child, Fear, The Rat, The Air, Mountain, Larks, The Earth
- Feeling:
- Flight, The Rose, The Foreigner, Drinking, We were All going to be Queens, Things, Catalonian Women
- IV. Wine Press
- The Other, The Fall of Europe, Hospital, Helpers, The Jewish Refugee, Daybreak; Morning; Evening; Night, The Last Tree
- V. Poem of Chile
- Waking up, My Mountain, Patch of Clover, Valparaiso, Poplar Groves, Talcahuano, Apple Trees, Ferns Southern Islands, Bibliograhy.
