{"product_id":"selected-poems-of-gabriela-mistral-mary-burritt-christiansen-poetry-series-9780826328199","title":"Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first Nobel Prize in literature to be awarded to a Latin American writer went to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. Famous and beloved during her lifetime all over Latin America and in Europe  Mistral has never been known in North America as she deserves to be. The reputation of her more flamboyant and accessible friend and countryman Pablo Neruda has overshadowed hers  and she has been officially sentimentalized into a \"poetess\" of children and motherhood. Translations  and even selections of her work in Spanish  have tended to underplay the darkness  the strangeness  and the raging intensity of her poems of grief and pain  the yearning power of her evocations of the Chilean landscape  the stark music of her Round Dances  the visionary splendor of her Hymns of America.  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 Guins 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 Tzus Tao Te Ching  and a volume of mutual translation with the Argentine poet Diana Bellessi  The Twins  the Dream\/Las Gemalas  El Sueo. Strongly drawn to Mistrals work as soon as she discovered it  Le Guin worked on this translation for five years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665852424245,"sku":"ByrdShop_0826328199","price":61.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780826328199.jpg?v=1782410431","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/selected-poems-of-gabriela-mistral-mary-burritt-christiansen-poetry-series-9780826328199","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}