Author:
Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957.
Imprint:Fredonia, N.Y. : White Pine Press, c1997.
Description227 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:Introduction: Gabriela Mistral, the restless soul -- POETRY: Section I - Desolation [poems from Life, Pain, Nature I] -- Section II: Tenderness [poems from Cradle Songs, Roundds, The delirious woman, Exasperating games, Tell-the-world, Almost scholastic, stories] -- Section III: Felling of trees [poems from Hallucination, Tales of a delirious woman, America, Nostalgic solitude, The dead wave, Creation, My mother's death] -- Section IV: Wine Press [poems from Delirious Woman, Nature II, Delirium, Time, Religious women, Nocturnes, Uncollected] -- Section V: Poem of Chile [excerpts] -- PROSE: from In praise of earthly things -- Other prose: Chile ; A profile of the Mexican Indian woman ; Something about the Quechuan people ; The Chilean Copihue ; Alfonsina Storni ; Gabriela thinks about her absent mother ; The tropical destiny of South America ; An American myth: Chile's El Caleuche ; The Argentine pamap ; A word that we have stained: tropicalism ; An invitation to the work of Rainer Maria Rilke ; A message about Pablo Neruda ; How I write.
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