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Title: Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (Hispanic Foundation Ser) by Doris Dana, Antonio Fresconi ISBN: 0-8018-1256-9 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Expertly translated into English by Ursula K. Le Guin
Comment: A simply outstanding addition to any personal or academic poetry collection, Selected Poems Of Gabriela Mistral is an extensive anthology of poetry by Gabriela Mistral who is the first Latin American writer to earn the Nobel Prize in literature. These free-verse poems are presented side-by-side in their original Spanish and expertly translated into English by Ursula K. Le Guin. Impressionable imagery and powerful, sweeping themes of the human condition mark this truly exceptional collection as highly recommended and memorable reading. Evening: In this sweetness I feel/my heart melt like wax./In my veins runs/not wine, but slow oil,/and I feel my life slipping away/still and soft as a gazelle.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Mistral translations available in print
Comment: This bilingual collection offers a superb selection of poetry from all of Gabriela Mistral's volumes. Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957)was the first Nobel Laureate from Latin America, teacher to Pablo Neruda, forerunner of writers such as Garcia Marquez and Rigoberta Menchu. Her work is hardly known in the United States in part because Mistral was not (unlike these other, better-known writers) identified with any particular political platform. She was always, first and last, a writer and a teacher...and incidentally one of Latin America's first celebrities, a public intellectual in every sense of the word. This collection draws from Gabriela Mistral's poetry alone (excerpted from five volumes; short selections of Mistral's poetic prose have been ably translated by Stephen Tapscott, published by the U of Texas, while the hundreds of journalistic pieces that Mistral wrote and circulated all over the Spanish-speaking world are still unknown to US readers).
The editorial standards in this text are very high. Pages have been laid out so that it is easy to consult the corresponding lines in Spanish and English. While LeGuin states in the introduction that she has little prior experience translating from Spanish to English, she makes clear in her introduction that she worked on this project for years, aided by associates fluent in both languages, and her motivation throughout was the desire to bring this extraordinary, brilliant, hard-to-classify poet's work to English language readers. LeGuin has succeeded admirably. The translations are close to the feeling of the Spanish, yet they avoid wooden literalism.
At all moments LeGuin opts to communicate the mood of the poem, and her choices of poems to translate is clearly dictated by a combination of elements. She chooses, first, what can be most readily translated - she prefers the narrative poems over most of the "songs" (cradle songs and rounds) since the rhymes and rhythms of latter are difficult to convey. Also the book selects more or less equally from the volumes of poetry that Mistral produced over her lifetime, so that we get an excellent overview of this poet's development. Finally, the translator has worked with poems that are among the poet's most intellectually complex works, ones that show the poet's utopian vision for the Americas, her unique feminism, her fascination with landscape and her travels all over the world.
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Title: Poemas De Las Madres: The Mothers' Poems by Gabriela Mistral, Christiane J. Kyle ISBN: 0910055297 Publisher: Ewu Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Women by Gabriela Mistral, Marjorie Agosin, Jacqueline C. Nanfito, Marjorie Agosín ISBN: 1893996093 Publisher: White Pine Press (NY) Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda, Ilan Stavans ISBN: 0374299951 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Alfonsina Storni: Poesa : Editores Mexicanos Unidos by Alfonsina Storni ISBN: 968150013X Publisher: Editorial Diana, S.A. Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.98 |
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Title: Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems (Edición bilingüe) by Pablo Neruda, Anthony Kerrigan ISBN: 0395544181 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 10 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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