| Description |
1 online resource (180 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; From Lagar / Winepress; From Lagar II; Uncollected; Texts and Sources; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index of First Lines |
| Summary |
A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still challenges scholars, Gabriela Mistral (18891957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in Latin American literature of the last century. The Locas mujeres poems collected here are among Mistral's most complex and compelling, exploring facets of the self in extremispoems marked by the wound of blazing catastrophe and its aftermath of mourning. From disquieting humor to balladlike lyricism to folkloric wisdom, these pieces enact a tragi |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957 -- Translations into English
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| SUBJECT |
Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957. fast (OCoLC)fst00011402 |
| Subject |
POETRY / General.
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| Genre/Form |
Translations.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Couch, Randall
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| ISBN |
9780226531892 |
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0226531899 |
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