Palabras, Anhelos y Deseos

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...

Cinco amigos para una bohemia, es un libro cuyos poemas tienen la capacidad de despertar la sensibilidad del ser humano, ante ciertos aspectos de la vida cotidiana. Los temas que abordan los poemas son diversos, entre ellos: El maltrato a la mujer, maltrato infantil, pobreza extrema, injusticia, crueldad, dolor, tristeza, muerte. Los poemas, en su mayoría son abstractos, pero algunos de ellos, tienen su base de inspiración hechos reales, entremezclados con un toque especial de metáfora. Los poemas de amor que se incluyen en Cinco amigos para una bohemia: Tengo la seguridad, que tocarán el ...

Cuando se dicen cosas con amores. Cuando se engaña al mundo con mentiras. Aunque el sol nos abrace en el camino surgirá de las sombras la Poesía. Aunque un día no existan los Poetas y vaguemos a ciegas por la vida, ¡¡imposible será que ella no exista!! Poesía es la vida misma.

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