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Desolación / Gabriela Mistral ; translated by Inés Bellina, Anne Freeland & Alejandra Camila Quintana Arocho ; featuring 37 poems translated by Langston Hughes ; illustrations by Rafael Lara and his students at Academia de Arts Islas al Sur in the Chiloé (Chilwe) Archipelago, Chile.

Van Pelt Library PQ8097.G6 D413 2023
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957, author.
Contributor:
Bellina, Inés, translator.
Freeland, Anne, translator.
Arocho, Alejandra Quintana, 2000- translator.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, translator.
Language:
English
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Chilean poetry--20th century.
Chilean poetry.
Chilean fiction.
Short stories, Chilean.
Chilean literature.
Genre:
Poesía chilena -- Siglo XX.
Physical Description:
lviii, 597 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Edition:
Centennial bilingual edition.
First paperback edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Sundial House, [2023]
Language Note:
Text in English and Spanish
Summary:
Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1945. Mistral has fascinated scholars, writers, and artists, who have tried to piece together the variegated layers of her persona and her "emotionally outspoken verses," as Langston Hughes described them. Sundial House's centenary edition commemorates Mistral's debut anthology, Desolación (1922), edited by Federico de Onís at Columbia University. This bilingual edition, featuring 37 poems translated by Langston Hughes, breathes new life into the Mistral's first anthology and makes available in English an intimate portrait of an ardent observer of life. Desolación is an evocative collection of poems and haunting poetic prose that explore desire, grief, motherhood, childhood, nature, and spirituality with radical sensibility.
Contents:
Prologue
Archival images and English translations of correspondence between Gabriela Mistral and Professor Federico de Onís
Preliminary Words / Instituto de las Españas
Archival images of Desolación, first edition, 1922
Translator's Note / Alejandra Camila Quintana Arocho
Translator's Note / Inés Bellina
Desolación. English Translation (2022)
Poetry. 1. Life.
Rodin's The Thinker
Bistolfi's Cross
To the Ear of Christ
For the Hebrew People
Good Friday
Ruth
The Strong Woman
The Barren Woman
A Child Alone
Song of the Just
Torture
Serene Words
In Memoriam
Future
To the Virgin of the Hill
To Joselín Robles
Credo
The Restless Shadow
II. The School. The Rural Teacher
The Evergreen Oak
The Luminous Circle
Children's Poems. Daily Prayer
Little Feet
White Clouds
As the Snow Falls
Planting the Tree
Hymn to the Tree
Prayer for the Nest
Lady of the Spring
Plant the Seed!
Promise to the Stars
Summer
Addressing the Father
The Guardian Angel
Little Red Riding Hood
To Noel
Children's Rounds
Ill.Sorrow. The Encounter
I Love Love
The Love that Does not Speak
Ecstasy
Intimate
God Wills It
Sleepless
Ashamed
Ballad
Tribulation
Nocturne
Sonnets of Death
Questions
Waiting in Vain
The Obsession
Coplas
Eternal Wax
To See Him Again
The Fountain
The Sentence
The Vase
The Plea
A Child
The Bones of the Dead
IV. Nature. Desolation
Dead Tree
Three Trees
Hawthorn
To the Clouds
Autumn
The Mountain at Night
Peak
Ballad of the Star
The Slow Rain
Pine Forest
Prose. The Teacher's Prayer
Children's Hair
Poems for Mothers
Poems for the Saddest of Mothers
Lullabies
Themes of Clay
The Four-Petaled Flower
Poems of Ecstasy
Art
The Artist's Decalogue
Commentary on the Poems of Rabindranath Tagore
Spiritual Readings
On the Passion
Poems of the Home
Pedagogical Prose - School Tales.
Why Reeds Are Hollow
Why Roses Have Thorns
The Rose Bush Root
The Thistle
The Pond
Vow
Selected Poems by Gabriela Mistral (1957)
Translations by Langston Hughes
Desolación / Texto original en español.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages l-lii).
Contains:
Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957. Desolación.
Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957. Desolación. English
ISBN:
9798987926437
9789798987922
9798987926
OCLC:
1377419061

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