BOOKS FROM CHILESelected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
by Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana
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Set in Chile
Female author
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Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, and her works are among the finest in all contemporary poetry. She is loved and honored throughout the world as one of the great humanistic voices of our time.
This bilingual edition of selected poems was translated and edited by Doris Dana, a close personal friend with whom Gabriela lived and worked with prior to her death in 1957. These translations give a profound insight into the original poetry of this greatest of contemporary Latin American women. They were selected from her four major works ‘Desolación', ‘Ternura', ‘Tala', and ‘Lagar’.
