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Oct 15, 2009 · Strong and intensely human, Mistral’s poetic women confront impossible situations to which no sane response exists. This groundbreaking collection presents poems from Mistral’s final published volume as well as new editions of posthumous work, featuring the first English-language appearance of many essential poems.
Our laughter’s made of its rivers, our cheeks of its dusty earth. Kissing the feet of the dancers. it groans like a mother in birth. It’s beautiful, and for its beauty. we’ll dance its fields along, it’s free, and for its freedom. we’ll drench its face in song. Tomorrow we’ll hew and quarry,
Gabriela Mistral’s poem “Fear” is about a mother who fears that her child will grow up to be too ambitious and lose touch with her simple life. The poem deals with the relationship and views of a mother in a society that prioritizes a lavish lifestyle and irreplaceable vanity. Mistral does an impeccable job at conveying the fear ...
The night, it is deserted. from the mountains to the sea. But I, the one who rocks you, I am not alone! The sky, it is deserted. for the moon falls to the sea. But I, the one who holds you, I am not alone ! The world, it is deserted.
Jan 1, 2001 · Mistral's tomb inscription, Montegrande, Chile - shared in GABRIELA MISTRAL: A READER, edited by Marjorie Agosin, and translated from the Spanish by Maria Giachetti, 1993. 🏅Mistral won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945, making her the first Latin American writer with this honor. I read some of her translated prose and poetry last year ...
May 13, 2011 · Gabriela Mistral 1889 (Vicuña) – 1957 (Hempstead) Love. The treasure at the heart of the rose. is your own heart's treasure. Scatter it as the rose does: your pain becomes hers to measure. Scatter it in a song, or in one great love's desire. Do not resist the rose.
By Gabriela Mistral. JSTOR and the Poetry Foundation are collaborating to digitize, preserve, and extend access to Poetry. Source: Poetry (December 1941) Browse all issues back to 1912. This Appears In. Read Issue. SUBSCRIBE TODAY. December 1941 | Allen Curnow, Archibald MacLeish, Edouard Roditi, George Abbe, Augustine Bowe, Millen Brand, Clara ...
