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By Gabriela Mistral

ISBN-10: 0292752601

ISBN-13: 9780292752603

Really nice and wide-ranging number of items via Gabriela Mistral (including a decalogue of the artist).

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The first Latin American to obtain a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean author Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is frequently characterised as a therapeutic, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of girls, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, kids, and the agricultural terrible. She is that political poet and extra: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and bold. it is a publication filled with surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural boldness of those prose-poems, in particular the female-erotic prose items of her first ebook, cause them to an incredible second within the heritage of literary modernism in a convention that runs from Baudelaire, the North American moderns, and the South American postmodernistas. It's a booklet that may be eye-opening and informative to the final reader in addition to to scholars of gender experiences, cultural reviews, literary background, and poetry.

This Spanish-English bilingual quantity gathers the main recognized and consultant prose writings of Gabriela Mistral, that have no longer been as on hand to English-only readers as her poetry. The items are grouped into 4 sections. "Fables, Elegies, and issues of the Earth" comprises fifteen of Mistral's such a lot available prose-poems. "Prose and Prose-Poems from Desolación / Desolation [1922]" provides all of the prose from Mistral's first vital e-book. "Lyrical Biographies" are Mistral's poetic meditations on Saint Francis and Sor Juana de l. a. Cruz. "Literary Essays, Journalism, 'Messages'" collects items that display Mistral's critiques on a variety of topics, together with the perform of training; the writers Alfonso Reyes, Alfonsina Storni, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Pablo Neruda; Mistral's personal writing practices; and her social ideals. Editor/translator Stephen Tapscott rounds out the amount with a chronology of Mistral's existence and a short creation to her occupation and prose.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Biographical Data
Principal Publications
I. Fables, Elegies, and issues of the Earth
El mar
The Sea
La cebra
The Zebra
El faisán dorado
The Golden Pheasant
La harina
Flour
Elogio de l. a. sal
In compliment of Salt
El higo
The Fig
La piña
The Pineapple
La tortuga
The Tortoise
Pan
Bread
La jirafa
The Giraffe
La alpaca
The Alpaca
El girasol
The Sunflower
Elogio del cristal
In compliment of Glass
Elogio de los angeles arena
In compliment of Sand
Segundo elogio de los angeles arena
Second Praise-Song for the Sand
II. Prose and Prose-Poems from Desolación/Desolation (1922)
La oración de l. a. maestra
The Teacher's Prayer
Los cabellos de los niños
Children's Hair
Poemas de las madres
Poems of the Mothers
I. Poemas de las madres
I. Poems of the Mothers
II. Poemas de l. a. madre más triste
II. Poems of the Saddest Mother
Nota
Note
Canciones de cuna
Lullabies
Motivos del barro
Motifs of Clay
La flor de cuatro pétalos
The Four-Petaled Flower
Poemas del éxtasis
Poems of Ecstasy
El arte
Art
Decálogo del artista
Decalogue of the Artist
Comentarios a poemas de Rabindranath Tagore
Commentary on Poems through Rabindranath Tagore
Lecturas espirituales
Spiritual Readings
Motivos de los angeles Pasión
Motifs of the Passion
Poemas del hogar
Poems of the Home
Prosa escolar/Cuentos escolares
Scholarly Prose/Stories for Schools
Por qué las cañas son huecas
Why Bamboo Canes Are Hollow
Por qué las rosas tienen espinas
Why Roses Have Thorns
La raíz del rosal
The Root of the Rosebush
El cardo
The Thistle
La charca
The Puddle
III. Lyrical Biographies
Canto a San Francisco
Song to Saint Francis
Silueta de Sor Juana Inés de l. a. Cruz
Profile of Sor Juana Inés de los angeles Cruz
IV. Literary Essays, Journalism, "Messages"
Decir el sueño
To claim the Dream
Pensamientos pedagógicos
Thoughts on Teaching
Silueta de l. a. india mexicana
Profile of the Mexican Indian Woman
Chile
Chile
Un hombre de México: Alfonso Reyes
A guy of Mexico: Alfonso Reyes
Alfonsina Storni
Alfonsina Storni
Invitación a l. a. lectura de Rainer María Rilke
An Invitation to learn Rainer Maria Rilke
Si Napoleón no hubiese existido
If Napoleon Had by no means Existed
José Martí
José Martí
Recado sobre Pablo Neruda
A Message approximately Pablo Neruda
Como escribo
How I Write
Sobre cuatro sorbos de agua
On 4 Sips of Water
La palabra maldita
The Forbidden Word
Mis principles sociales
My Social Beliefs
Translator's Remarks
Index of Titles

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"With his new translations . . . Stephen Tapscott makes nice strides towards redefining Mistral, her paintings, and her existence for the North American reader. This assortment denies the severe urge to permit Mistral's such a lot celebrated poetry to trump her multifaceted achievements and vast highbrow pursuits. For the anglophone Mistral aficionado, chosen Prose and Prose-Poems is a breath of clean air from a window on unexplored terrain."

—Bloomsbury Review

"Tapscott's quantity incorporates a wealthy number of brief texts—literary profiles, essays, tales for kids, prose poems, biographies of non secular figures, small fables extolling the romance of standard issues, and writings on schooling and present events—and offers an outstanding creation to Mistral's prose. . . . [His] translations of Mistral's 'prose as tight as verse' are either lyrical and precise."

—Women's overview of Books

"These poems take usual issues of the world—the pineapple, the tortoise, bread—and bring up them into marvels with playful wit and shiny imagery. this is often one of the best possible nature poetry I've read....So, for those who like poetry, my recommendation is to place away any reservations you have approximately prose poems and browse this collection."

—Tim Jones, Belletrista

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What Will He Be Like? What will he be like? I gazed for a long time at the petals of a rose, and I touched them delightedly: I would want that so ness for his cheeks. And I played in a tangle of brambles, because I would want his hair to be like that, dark and curling. But it won’t matter if it is bronze colored, with the rich color of red clay that potters love, or if his smooth hair is as simple as my whole life. I watch the hollows in the mountains as they fill with fog, and I sketch with the fog the silhouette of a girl, a very sweet little girl: my child could be like that too .

The thought of life turns banal from the moment it isn’t blended with the thought of death. The pure essentials are superficial giants or little pagans. The pagan paid attention to both.  FA B L E S , E L E G I E S , A N D T H I N G S O F T H E E A R T H La jirafa La ven pasar y se preguntan los demás animales qué cosa ha alcanzado que valiera ese levantamiento del cuello. —Tendrá mejores datos que nosotras —dicen las liebres— sobre las tempestades. —Qué hambre estúpida de horizontes —comenta la cebra— su prima en jaspeadura.

La cabeza entró en su estuche; las patas en su funda. La arena se dio cuenta de que se encogía un poquito más. Le dejaron orearse; después la han vaciado. Ahora hay sobre la mesa una concha espaciosa, urna de hierro viejo, llena de silencio. [] The Tortoise Fools allude to her in every conversation about progress, critiquing that lovely slowness. She has lived for forty years in this square patio, which has only one jas FA B L E S , E L E G I E S , A N D T H I N G S O F T H E E A R T H mine tree and one dry water basin.

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