Las dos orillas de mi vida

La poesía nos ofrece unos textos auténticos para la enseñanza de una lengua extranjera y nos permite desarrollar y practicar en clase la competencia comunicativa, concibiendo la literatura como un acto de comunicación. Tiene una ventaja sobre los otros géneros literarios por su brevedad y su música. En la poesía encontramos un universo de posibilidades, ambigüedades, metáforas, rimas y repeticiones que nos pueden ayudar en la enseñanza de una lengua extranjera. Este universo de sonidos hay que explotarlo porque encierra un gran potencial didáctico. Edito este libro con el...

I am honored to dedicate my poetry in English and Spanish to the world and specially in these difficult times that we have . I know that my experiences that I have had since my early childhood have given me solutions for many of the challenges that our world faces today. I support the protection of the environment since I believe that it is our duty to protect what God has given us, and not to to be destructive to flora and fauna; and that wars between humans should be resolved in a peaceful and cordial way. I also address homelessness, drug abuse, abuse of the elderly , and to prayerfully...

"Es una de las cimas de la poesia en lengua castellana, significa una apertura a lo expresivo y la incorporacion de valores insospechados hasta su aparicion."

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...