The Texas Observer, January 16th, 2004
Gabriela Mistral: Selected Prose and Prose-Poems 262 pages, $34.95. This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo 389 pages, $29.95. "I'm made that way," she says, "like the Iliad, covered with hard mail plates, then suddenly opening, sweetly, in lines about Helen of Troy."-- "The Pineapple" The Chilean writer, Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was an educator, poet, diplomat, journalist, champion of the underdog, fervent advocate of pan-Americanism, and in 1945 became the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also like the pineap...
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