Poema de Chile

Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 1996. 1. ed. en la colección Premios nacionales de literatura. 261, [2] pages: illustrations; 21 cm; bibliographical references (pages 261-262). Near fine(-) with minor external wear; tight and clean. Paperback. ISBN: 9561112574; 9789561112575

In Spanish. 1,500 copies printed. Paperback original. Colección Premios nacionales de literatura; 10 [series]. "Nueva edición (la primera es de 1967) de crucial colección de la poeta. Dos personajes, una mujer y un niño indígena, recorren un Chile lleno de claves genéricas, étnicas y políticas en dirección a un origen decisivo: el sur chileno. Las voces del niño y la mujer en contrapunto subrayan la dimensión dramática de la mujer como fantasma o 'trascordada.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. ¶ Mistral’s last major work, unfinished at her death in 1957 . The poet’s ghost returns to walk the length of Chile, from the northern desert to the southern forests, guiding an Indigenous boy and a huemul deer. She names the country’s plants, animals, landscapes and trades as she goes, in a long sequence of plain, ballad-like quatrains. A posthumous gift to the country she had left in 1922 and lived away from for most of her life. Dana dated the work to the last twenty years of Mistral’s life. Scholars have since traced its beginnings back much further, to a process of some thirty-seven years. Long overshadowed by Desolación and Tala, it is now read as the one book in which Mistral “thinks Chile,” mapping the country through gender, ethnicity and the land.¶ Chile -- Poetry. Chile. CHILE -- POESIA.