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1. Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) (English and Spanish Edition) | |
Hardcover: 431
Pages
(2003-08-28)
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Editorial Review Product Description During her lifetime Mistral published four books: Desolation, Tenderness, Clearcut, and Winepress. These are included in the "Complete" Nobel edition published in Madrid; the Poem of Chile, her last book, was printed years after her death. Le Guin includes poems from all five books in this volume, with particular emphasis on the later work. The intelligence and passion of Le Guin’s selection and translation will finally allow people in the North to hear the originality, power, purity, and intransigence of this great American voice. Le Guin has published five volumes of her own poetry, an English version of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, and a volume of mutual translation with the Argentine poet Diana Bellessi, The Twins, the Dream/Las Gemalas, El Sueño. Strongly drawn to Mistral’s work as soon as she discovered it, Le Guin has been working on this translation for five years. Customer Reviews (4)
Touching & Deep
Great Read
Expertly translated into English by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Mistral translations available in print The editorial standards in this text are very high.Pages have been laid out so that it is easy to consult the corresponding lines in Spanish and English. While LeGuin states in the introduction that she has little prior experience translating from Spanish to English, she makes clear in her introduction that she worked on this project for years, aided by associates fluent in both languages, and her motivation throughout was the desire to bring this extraordinary, brilliant, hard-to-classify poet's work to English language readers.LeGuin has succeeded admirably.The translations are close to the feeling of the Spanish, yet they avoid wooden literalism. At all moments LeGuin opts to communicate the mood of the poem, and her choices of poems to translate is clearly dictated by a combination of elements.She chooses, first, what can be most readily translated - she prefers the narrative poems over most of the "songs" (cradle songs and rounds) since the rhymes and rhythms of latter are difficult to convey.Also the book selects more or less equally from the volumes of poetry that Mistral produced over her lifetime, so that we get an excellent overview of this poet's development.Finally, the translator has worked with poems that are among the poet's most intellectually complex works, ones that show the poet's utopian vision for the Americas, her unique feminism, her fascination with landscape and her travels all over the world. ... Read more |
2. This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo by Gabriela Mistral, Victoria Ocampo | |
Paperback: 389
Pages
(2003-11-01)
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A service to scholars and a treat for readers The surviving letters from Mistral are more numerous and longer than Ocampo's and--especially later in the correspondence--Ocampo's are more often censored (or self-censored). Thus we experience the Chilean poet more vividly, though the editors have compensated for this imbalance by including pertinent letters by and to other correspondents, as well as poems and essays by both writers on each other's work. Portraying a fascinating range of relationships across three continents, the letters make personal the intellectual and political upheavals leading to the Spanish Civil War, the rise of European fascism and horrors of the Second World War, as well as the Peronist movement and its aftermath in Argentina. They also show Mistral's struggle to cope with the suicide of her nephew and adopted son Juan Miguel (Yin Yin). But their chief value may lie in revealing--especially for Mistral--the process of self-fashioning. Both women successfully created platforms for their own work as artists and public intellectuals in cultures that tried to constrain them to approved feminine roles. Mistral particularly had enjoyed unusual (for any poet) proximity to real political power in her education work for the revolutionary government in Mexico. In the letters we witness her constant awareness of playing roles--of carefully selecting positions, associates, and words. Like Thomas More, she knew only too well how dangerous rulers could be, and how trapped she could become in an image the state found useful. She derided under the term "organdy" the starched homages she constantly received from provincial schoolteachers and pupils when she appeared in public. This self-fashioning had a private side as well. For decades, we learn, Mistral engaged in an astonishing and apparently unsolicited _interpretation_ of Ocampo in her letters to her, explaining to her friend what her true nature was and how her behavior and words could better embody it. This apparently bizarre mirroring can be understood in the context of Mistral's passionate desire to define a specifically "(pan)American" identity. It was crucial for this project that any such definition be able to accommodate her elegant and courageous friend. Over the years we watch Mistral cajole, berate, and praise Ocampo, and occasionally grudgingly adjust her own categories to allow a revised appreciation of some action on her friend's part. Mistral urges on Ocampo the works of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross, among other Spanish mystics. These passages in the letters highlight two things fundamental to an understanding of the Chilean Nobel laureate's poetry and politics. First is her awareness of a vast and complex inward space, a spiritual landscape or architecture suggesting that of Teresa's _Interior Castle_. For Mistral the world of action is only part of the human sphere. Second is her paradoxical (for one who insists on the value of the concrete natural world) commitment to the concept of essence. Whether discussing class, national traits, aesthetic trends, or religious or social doctrine, Mistral argues from essence in an almost Platonic way. She judges both poets and politicians by what we would call character, and explicitly mistrusts intellectual calculus, however much she might employ it herself. She gently abuses Ocampo for her attachment to the French language, disparaging the France "of Racine," for her a symbol of sterile academic technique. Perhaps surprisingly, her essentialist vision does not lead her to serious intolerance: it seems to be more organic, favoring a diverse human ecology in which each type, while true to its nature, has a place. The letters reinforce her public reputation as a tireless worker on behalf of the displaced and oppressed. Horan and Meyer have each spent years with the voices of their respective authors, and their translations reflect that familiar toil. The letters read smoothly and colloquially, with remarkably few verbal oddities in a work of this length. The book is a distinguished addition to Texas' growing catalogue on Mistral and her Latin American contemporaries. Readers drawn to this epistolary friendship will find additional delight in _Amigas_, the record of a similarly lengthy correspondence between two extraordinary contemporary Chilean writers--childhood friends and expatriates since the 1973 coup that overthrew Allende--Marjorie Agosin and Emma Sepulveda, also published by Texas. ... Read more |
3. Tala (Spanish Edition) by Gabriela Mistral | |
Paperback: 168
Pages
(2003-10-01)
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4. Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler (Ohio RIS Latin America Series) by Marjorie Agosin | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2003-09-25)
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5. My Name is Gabriela/Me llamo Gabriela (Bilingual): The Life of Gabriela Mistral/la vida de Gabriela Mistral by Monica Brown | |
Hardcover: 32
Pages
(2005-09-25)
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bueno
Superb Bilingual Children's Book about a Major World Literary Figure
Culture and Story
Story about a story teller
A Great Poetess |
6. Gabriela Mistral: A Reader (Secret Weavers Series) | |
Paperback: 227
Pages
(1995-01-01)
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review for gabriele mistal a reader
A Gabriela Mistral Reader
Superb piece of writing
Good Poetry
Jacketti's Translations Show Superior Quality We need more translations from Jacketti! I highly recommend "The Gabriela Mistral Reader" in your library collection. ... Read more |
7. Queer Mother For The Nation: The State And Gabriela Mistral by Licia Fiol-Matta | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2002-02-11)
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Editorial Review Product Description A Queer Mother for the Nation weaves a nuanced understanding of how Mistral cooperated with authority and fashioned herself as the figure of Motherhood in collaboration with the state. Drawing on Mistral's little-known political and social essays, her correspondence and photographs, Fiol-Matta reconstructs Mistral's relationship to state politics. Her work questions the notion of queer bodies as outlaws, and insists on the many ways in which queer subjects have participated in and sustained the normative discourses they seem to rebel against. Licia Fiol-Matta is assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College. Customer Reviews (2)
New Elements on Mistral's Life and Beliefs.
Gabriela unveiled |
8. Madwomen: The "Locas mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition by Gabriela Mistral | |
Paperback: 184
Pages
(2009-10-15)
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Review of Madwomen |
9. Women: Recados | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2001-06-01)
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Wonderful stories |
10. Desolacion (Spanish Edition) by Gabriela Mistral | |
Paperback: 222
Pages
(1997-07)
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Masterpiece
unread yet looking forward to |
11. Gabriela Mistral: The Poet and Her Work by Margot Arce de Vazquez | |
Paperback: 158
Pages
(1964-01-01)
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12. Gabriela Mistral Para Ninos/ Gabriela Mistral For Kids (Alba Y Mayo/ Dawn and May) (Spanish Edition) | |
Paperback: 125
Pages
(1994-12-30)
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13. Gabriela Mistral y su Sobrino by Isolina Barraza de Estay | |
Unknown Binding:
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(1978-01-01)
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14. Selected Prose and Prose Poems (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Texas Pan American Literature in Translation ... Anderson) (English and Spanish Edition) by Gabriela Mistral | |
Paperback: 262
Pages
(2004-09-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. 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. 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. 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. The pieces are grouped into four sections. "Fables, Elegies, and Things of the Earth" includes fifteen of Mistral's most accessible prose-poems. "Prose and Prose-Poems from Desolación / Desolation [1922]" presents all the prose from Mistral's first important book. "Lyrical Biographies" are Mistral's poetic meditations on Saint Francis and Sor Juana de la Cruz. "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. Editor/translator Stephen Tapscott rounds out the volume with a chronology of Mistral's life and a brief introduction to her career and prose. |
15. Que sera de Chile en el Cielo? Poema de Chile de Gabriela Mistral (Coleccion Texto Sobre Texto) (Spanish Edition) by Soledad Falabella | |
Paperback: 290
Pages
(2003-10-10)
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16. LA Critica Literaria En LA Obra De Gabriela Mistral (Coleccion Polymita) (Spanish Edition) by Onilda A. Jimenez | |
Paperback: 303
Pages
(1983-03)
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17. Invitacion a Gabriela Mistral(1889-1989): Presentacion y Seleccion de Gladys Rodriguez Valdez (Coleccion Tierra Firme) (Spanish Edition) by Gladys Rodriguez Valdes | |
Paperback: 270
Pages
(1990)
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18. De la Vida y la Obra de Gabriela Mistral by Gastón Figueira | |
Unknown Binding:
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(1959-01-01)
Asin: B003XK36F0 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
19. Producción de Gabriela Mistral de 1912 a 1918 by Raúl Silva Castro | |
Unknown Binding:
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(1957-01-01)
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20. Antología de Gabriela Mistral by Gabriela Mistral | |
Unknown Binding:
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(1957-01-01)
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