selected prose and prose poems gabriela mistral

'Literary Essays, Journalism, 'Messages'' collects pieces that reveal Mistral's opinions on a wide range of subjects, including the practice of teaching the writers Alfonso Reyes, Alfonsina Storni, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Pablo Neruda Mistral's own writing practices and her social beliefs. 'Lyrical Biographies' are Mistral's poetic meditations on Saint Francis and Sor Juana de la Cruz. 'Prose and Prose-Poems from Desolacion / Desolation ' presents all the prose from Mistral's first important book.

'Fables, Elegies, and Things of the Earth' includes fifteen of Mistral's most accessible prose-poems. The pieces are grouped into four sections. This Spanish-English bilingual volume gathers the most famous and representative prose writings of Gabriela Mistral, which have not been as readily available to English-only readers as her poetry. It's a book that will be eye-opening and informative to the general reader as well as to students of gender studies, cultural studies, literary history, and poetry. The complexity and structural boldness of these prose-poems, especially the female-erotic prose pieces of her first book, make them an important moment in the history of literary modernism in a tradition that runs from Baudelaire, the North American moderns, and the South American postmodernistas. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring.

The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor.

Selected prose and prose poems gabriela mistral