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The American poet and translator presents a bilingual collection of poems about his days in Madrid, the losses that come throughout life, and the experience of living in two cultures.

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...

Al publicar la presente antología, por una parte, pretendemos llenar un vacío en lo que respecta a la presencia de las poetas afrodescendientes, en la producción literaria colombiana, y, por otra, considerar el gran impacto, no sólo regional sino global, por el hecho que en nuestro país, se esté presentando un verdadero florecimiento poético, con una masa crítica de magníficas poetas colombianas, profesionales en su oficio, con una procedencia étnica africana común. Es una demostración más de la riqueza multicultural de Colombia, y de cómo las políticas de educación y...

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