Mistral, Gabriela

A Gabriela Mistral Reader (Secret Weavers)

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A Gabriela Mistral Reader
Superb piece of writing
Good Poetry
Jacketti's Translations Show Superior Quality

A Gabriela Mistral Reader (Secret Weavers)
Gabriela Mistral , and Maria Giachetti
Manufacturer: White Pine Press (NY)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1877727180

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poetry/prose by Nobel laureate, tr Maria Giachetti

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review for gabriele mistal a reader.......2002-05-13

By reading the translations you have a better understanding and felling of the author Gabrielle true meaning. It is put in a simple formula for a first time poetry reader or a person who reads a lot of peotry to appreciate the poems. "To the clouds and to see him again", bring you into the poem.

A Gabriela Mistral Reader.......2002-05-08

I like the poetry's modernized spelling and format. It helps the modern reader to understand the text. The poems are full of meaning, helpful and have a positive effect on readers. My favorites poems are "The Wild Strawberry," "Rocking," "Flour," "Morning" and "The Rose." The selected works of "A Gabriela Mistral Reader" is an enjoyable experience for students and people who love poetry. I would highly recommend this book to everyone because her poem shows real life situations that we have in today's world; they describe the importance of nature and have deep feeling about women and from nature. Jacketti translates her poems very beautifully.

Superb piece of writing.......2002-05-03

Just by reading "A Reader" by Gabriela Mistral one is able to experience the beauty of artistical language. Mistral's message to her readers depicts her real attitude toward life and how confidence she is of her profound feelings. Hungry readers will find satisfaction by understanding Mistral's content and enriching their cultural background. Mistral's word in "A Reader" is sufficient to open one's mind to see a different horizon. One will be able to find new ways to express sentiments that have been hidden in our hearts

Good Poetry.......2002-05-02

This book of poems was one which was put together very nicely. I liked how all the poems were grouped together by having similarities. It made them some what easier to understand when reading them. Not one to be to enthusiastic about reading poetry, I was surprised to actually take a strong liking to some of the poems. The ones that struck me the most were:"Rocking", "The Future," "The Rose," "Song Of The Dead Girls", and "The Christmas Star".These poems seemed to stick out to me from all that were selected to be in the book.The only part about this text I didn't appreciate too much was the selections of prose..), maybe me being from a different country than Mistral I was unable to relate to them, but other than that I would highly recommend this book to everyone, even if one is not interested in poetry. It may catch your attention because it definitely did catch mine.

Jacketti's Translations Show Superior Quality.......2002-04-26

A fabulous undertaking of poetry and prose. It is obvious that Jacketti took all efforts to translate Mistral with flow and grace from Spanish. Very few translators achieve this height. My favorites are "The Obsession," "Paradise," "Heaven's Carriage,"and my most favorite is "The Christmas Star." Incidently, John Adams used this translation in his recently operetic release, "El Niño."

We need more translations from Jacketti!

Book Description

Exquisite word portraits of women by one of the past century's greatest women writers.

These recados-brief, descriptive essays-paint vivid pictures of some of the most extraordinary women of Mistral's generation-and give us insights into Mistral herself. In these pieces, Mistral infuses the traditionally objective essay form with the intimate and subjective, thereby creating an alternate space for women intellectuals in the public sphere. Her subjects range from her own beloved mother to well-known writers such as Victoria Ocampo and Emily Bronte, artists such as Chilean sculptor Laura Rodig and dancer Isadora Duncan, and to topics including feminism, women and politics, and women and education.

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is the only woman from Latin America to win the Nobel Prize. A native of Chile, she spent the final years of her life in the United States.

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Wonderful stories.......2005-08-02

If you are interested in women writers and in writings about women, this is the book for you.

This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo

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A service to scholars and a treat for readers

This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
Gabriela Mistral , Victoria Ocampo , Elizabeth Horan , and Doris Meyer
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0292705409

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<blockquote> "Meyer and Horan have done extraordinary and valuable work in collecting and editing the letters of Victoria Ocampo and Gabriela Mistral in <cite>This America of Ours....</cite> Ocampo and Mistral's exchanges often reveal their differing approaches to literature, politics, and feminism and, as such, provide an example of the richness and variety of women's intellectual engagement in Latin America." —Elizabeth A. Marchant, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA </blockquote>

Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were the two most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America. Mistral, a plain, self-educated Chilean woman of the mountains who was a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin America's first Nobel Laureate in 1945. Ocampo, a stunning Argentine woman of wealth, wrote hundreds of essays and founded the first-rate literary journal <cite>Sur.</cite> Though of very different backgrounds, their deep commitment to what they felt was "their" America forged a unique intellectual and emotional bond between them.

This collection of the previously unpublished correspondence between Mistral and Ocampo reveals the private side of two very public women. In these letters (as well as in essays that are included in an appendix), we see what Mistral and Ocampo thought about each other and about the intellectual and political atmosphere of their time (including the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the dictatorships of Latin America) and particularly how they negotiated the complex issues of identity, nationality, and gender within their wide-ranging cultural connections to both the Americas and Europe.

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A service to scholars and a treat for readers.......2004-03-15

_This America of Ours_ chronicles the thirty-year epistolary friendship of Latin America's two most remarkable women of letters. Though intended primarily for readers already familiar with Mistral or Ocampo, the book's editors provide such generous and well-placed notes and supporting material that the two writers and their turbulent worlds emerge in compelling depth and intimacy even for the nonspecialist.

The surviving letters from Mistral are more numerous and longer than Ocampo's and--especially later in the correspondence--Ocampo's are more often censored (or self-censored). Thus we experience the Chilean poet more vividly, though the editors have compensated for this imbalance by including pertinent letters by and to other correspondents, as well as poems and essays by both writers on each other's work.

Portraying a fascinating range of relationships across three continents, the letters make personal the intellectual and political upheavals leading to the Spanish Civil War, the rise of European fascism and horrors of the Second World War, as well as the Peronist movement and its aftermath in Argentina. They also show Mistral's struggle to cope with the suicide of her nephew and adopted son Juan Miguel (Yin Yin).

But their chief value may lie in revealing--especially for Mistral--the process of self-fashioning. Both women successfully created platforms for their own work as artists and public intellectuals in cultures that tried to constrain them to approved feminine roles. Mistral particularly had enjoyed unusual (for any poet) proximity to real political power in her education work for the revolutionary government in Mexico. In the letters we witness her constant awareness of playing roles--of carefully selecting positions, associates, and words. Like Thomas More, she knew only too well how dangerous rulers could be, and how trapped she could become in an image the state found useful. She derided under the term "organdy" the starched homages she constantly received from provincial schoolteachers and pupils when she appeared in public.

This self-fashioning had a private side as well. For decades, we learn, Mistral engaged in an astonishing and apparently unsolicited _interpretation_ of Ocampo in her letters to her, explaining to her friend what her true nature was and how her behavior and words could better embody it. This apparently bizarre mirroring can be understood in the context of Mistral's passionate desire to define a specifically "(pan)American" identity. It was crucial for this project that any such definition be able to accommodate her elegant and courageous friend. Over the years we watch Mistral cajole, berate, and praise Ocampo, and occasionally grudgingly adjust her own categories to allow a revised appreciation of some action on her friend's part.

Mistral urges on Ocampo the works of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross, among other Spanish mystics. These passages in the letters highlight two things fundamental to an understanding of the Chilean Nobel laureate's poetry and politics. First is her awareness of a vast and complex inward space, a spiritual landscape or architecture suggesting that of Teresa's _Interior Castle_. For Mistral the world of action is only part of the human sphere. Second is her paradoxical (for one who insists on the value of the concrete natural world) commitment to the concept of essence.

Whether discussing class, national traits, aesthetic trends, or religious or social doctrine, Mistral argues from essence in an almost Platonic way. She judges both poets and politicians by what we would call character, and explicitly mistrusts intellectual calculus, however much she might employ it herself. She gently abuses Ocampo for her attachment to the French language, disparaging the France "of Racine," for her a symbol of sterile academic technique. Perhaps surprisingly, her essentialist vision does not lead her to serious intolerance: it seems to be more organic, favoring a diverse human ecology in which each type, while true to its nature, has a place. The letters reinforce her public reputation as a tireless worker on behalf of the displaced and oppressed.

Horan and Meyer have each spent years with the voices of their respective authors, and their translations reflect that familiar toil. The letters read smoothly and colloquially, with remarkably few verbal oddities in a work of this length. The book is a distinguished addition to Texas' growing catalogue on Mistral and her Latin American contemporaries.

Readers drawn to this epistolary friendship will find additional delight in _Amigas_, the record of a similarly lengthy correspondence between two extraordinary contemporary Chilean writers--childhood friends and expatriates since the 1973 coup that overthrew Allende--Marjorie Agosin and Emma Sepulveda, also published by Texas.

Martin du Gard G. Mistral Pasternak (Nobel Prize Library)
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Martin du Gard G. Mistral Pasternak (Nobel Prize Library)
Roger Martin du Gard , Gabriela Mistral , and Boris Pasternak
Manufacturer: Alexis Gregory & CRM Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000F98PYO

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ROGER MARTIN DU GARD: Presentation Address; Acceptance Speech; Jean Barois (excerpt); The Life and Works of Roger Martin du Gard; The 1937 Prize; GABRIELA MISTRAL: Presentation Address; Acceptance Speech; Poems; The Life and Works of Gabriel Mistral; The 1945 Prize; BORIS PASTERNAK; Announcement; Fifty Poems; I Remember (excerpt); Doctor Zhivago (excerpt); A Biographical Sketch; The 1958 Prize. Each volume contains the work of the Nobel laureates plus critical biographies, presentation speeches, acceptance speeches, and discussion of the rationale for the selections, plus woodblock portraits of the authors. Also included are the original publisher's booklets, letters, and advertisements. Nobel Prize Library, published under the sponsorship of the Nobel Foundation & the Swedish Academy. Navy blue faux leather boards. Medalion of Alfred Bernhard Nobel embossed to front board. Red title block and gilt decorations to spine. Alexis Gregory and CRM Publishing, 1971.

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Soft, melodic, lyrical

Gabriela Mistral: poesía
Gabriela Mistral
Manufacturer: Editores Mexicanos Unidos, S.A.
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Binding: Paperback

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Soft, melodic, lyrical.......2000-04-14

If you love poetry you should learn Spanish if only to be able to read the poetry of Gabriela Mistral in the original tongue. It is lyrical and sweet yet profound and moving.

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Antologia De Poesia Y Prosa De Gabriela
Gabriela Mistral
Manufacturer: Fondo De Cultura Economica Inc
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The Elephant and His Secret. El Elefante Y Su Secreto.: El Elefante Y Su Secreto

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The Elephant and His Secret. El Elefante Y Su Secreto.: El Elefante Y Su Secreto
Doris Dana , and Gabriela Mistral
Manufacturer: Atheneum
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Binding: School & Library Binding

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ASIN: 0689304307

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Crickets and frogs;: A fable,
Gabriela Mistral
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