The pieces are grouped into four sections. 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. 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. 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. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring.
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.
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