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Gabriela Mistral and
Randall Couch (trans)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
October 15, 2009
Pages
168
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Bilingual
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226531915
ISBN-10
0226531910
Dimensions
0.50 by 5.25 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.54 lbs.
Original list price
$24.00
Other format details
university press
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Portrait of the Alcoholic | Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral | The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987 | The Savage Detectives | Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair | The Essential Neruda | Death in the Andes | A Gabriela Mistral Reader | Song of the Simple Truth
Portrait of the Alcoholic | Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral | The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987 | The Savage Detectives | Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair | The Essential Neruda | Death in the Andes | A Gabriela Mistral Reader | Song of the Simple Truth
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Winner, Corneliu M Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation (UK)
The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, magisterially translated into English by Randall Couch, is not only hair-raising, she took the top of my head off. The voices of her Madwomen, her Locas mujeres, in their austerity and eerily controlled emotion, now made available in English, strike me as something both new and permanent. An instant classic. --Stephen Romer, Popescu Prize announcement
Runner-up, PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Randall Couch has performed a remarkable task of editorial spadework, gathering a coherent set of Gabriela Mistral's last poems from various sources and creating an informed context that enables an appreciative reading. He has thus renewed the afterlife of a modern Chilean poet who, despite her status as a Nobel Laureate, remains on the fringes of the canon of Spanish poetries in English. It is Couch's sensitive translations, however, that play the most decisive role in this renewal: he has transformed the challenging Spanish texts into English poems characterized by resonant diction and forceful rhythms, effectively recreating Mistral's impassioned imagery and complex metrics. --Lawrence Venuti, PEN award citation
Description
A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still challenges scholars, Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in Latin American literature of the last century. 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.
    From disquieting humor to ballad-like lyricism to folkloric wisdom, these pieces enact a tragic sense of life, depicting "madwomen" who are anything but mad. Strong and intensely human, Mistral's poetic women confront impossible situations to which no sane response exists. This groundbreaking collection presents poems from Mistral's final published volume as well as new editions of posthumous work, featuring the first English-language appearance of many essential poems. Madwomen promises to reveal a profound poet to a new generation of Anglophone readers while reacquainting Spanish readers with a stranger, more complicated "madwoman" than most have ever known.
Winner, Corneliu M Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation (UK)
The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, magisterially translated into English by Randall Couch, is not only hair-raising, she took the top of my head off. The voices of her Madwomen, her Locas mujeres, in their austerity and eerily controlled emotion, now made available in English, strike me as something both new and permanent. An instant classic. --Stephen Romer, Popescu Prize announcement
Runner-up, PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Randall Couch has performed a remarkable task of editorial spadework, gathering a coherent set of Gabriela Mistral's last poems from various sources and creating an informed context that enables an appreciative reading. He has thus renewed the afterlife of a modern Chilean poet who, despite her status as a Nobel Laureate, remains on the fringes of the canon of Spanish poetries in English. It is Couch's sensitive translations, however, that play the most decisive role in this renewal: he has transformed the challenging Spanish texts into English poems characterized by resonant diction and forceful rhythms, effectively recreating Mistral's impassioned imagery and complex metrics. --Lawrence Venuti, PEN award citation
Description
A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still challenges scholars, Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in Latin American literature of the last century. 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.
    From disquieting humor to ballad-like lyricism to folkloric wisdom, these pieces enact a tragic sense of life, depicting "madwomen" who are anything but mad. Strong and intensely human, Mistral's poetic women confront impossible situations to which no sane response exists. This groundbreaking collection presents poems from Mistral's final published volume as well as new editions of posthumous work, featuring the first English-language appearance of many essential poems. Madwomen promises to reveal a profound poet to a new generation of Anglophone readers while reacquainting Spanish readers with a stranger, more complicated "madwoman" than most have ever known.
Editions
Hardcover
With Gabriela Mistral |
Bilingual edition from Univ of Chicago Pr (April 15, 2008)
9780226531908 | details & prices | 168 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $48.00
About: A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still challenges scholars, Gabriela Mistral (1889â1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in Latin American literature of the last century.
About: A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still challenges scholars, Gabriela Mistral (1889â1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in Latin American literature of the last century.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
With Gabriela Mistral |
Bilingual edition from Univ of Chicago Pr (October 15, 2009); titled "Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral"
9780226531915 | details & prices | 168 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.54 lbs | List price $24.00
About: Winner, Corneliu M Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation (UK)The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, magisterially translated into English by Randall Couch, is not only hair-raising, she took the top of my head off.
About: Winner, Corneliu M Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation (UK)The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, magisterially translated into English by Randall Couch, is not only hair-raising, she took the top of my head off.
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