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Author_Gabriela Mistral
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catastrophe
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folk narrative
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fragility
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health
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latin america
literature
loss
madwoman
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women
Product details
- ISBN 9780226531908
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 15 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2008
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature. The Locas mujeres poems collected here are among Mistral's most complex and compelling, exploring facets of the self in extremis - poems marked by the wound of blazing catastrophe and its aftermath of mourning. Madwomen promises to reveal a profound poet to a new generation while reacquainting Spanish readers with a stranger, more complicated 'madwoman' than most have ever known.
Randall Couch is adjunct professor of English at Arcadia University and an administrator at the University of Pennsylvania. He received Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships in poetry in 2000 and 2008.
