Semillas De Vida

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), and this selection of her poetry is designed to introduce her to an English-speaking public. Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the Elqui valley in the 'little north' of Chile, she became a schoolteacher at the age of fifteen and went on to become an educator of international...

A la manera de un lienzo del barroco neerlandés Pieter Claesz, la colección de poemas que integra Naturaleza muerta reúne una serie de retratos simbólicos sencillos y oscuramente deslumbrantes. Animales, insectos y plantas; esculturas de dioses griegos o héroes de la antigüedad clásica, objetos tales como un maniquí o el mapa de una ciudad, conforman un breve poemario que brilla por la sencillez y la destreza de su ejecución, armado a la manera de los nocturnos bodegones de los siglos XVI y XVII y lleno de erudición clásica pero accesible a todo público, profano y exigente.

"A work of poetry, which Pedro Lopez Adorno described as ""a legion of images, a lyric memoir peopled by remembrances, reflections, struggles, uncertainties, nostalgia and irony."""

Un temblor bajo los párpados las columnas del palacio matinal /revientan en los senderos, no puedo hablar frente al enjambre de brotes helados y humeantes.