How Long to Read Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral

How Long Does it Take to Read Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 31 minutes to read Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral by Gabriela Mistral

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The first Nobel Prize in literature to be awarded to a Latin American writer went to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. Famous and beloved during her lifetime all over Latin America and in Europe, Mistral has never been known in North America as she deserves to be. The reputation of her more flamboyant and accessible friend and countryman Pablo Neruda has overshadowed hers, and she has been officially sentimentalized into a "poetess" of children and motherhood. Translations, and even selections of her work in Spanish, have tended to underplay the darkness, the strangeness, and the raging intensity of her poems of grief and pain, the yearning power of her evocations of the Chilean landscape, the stark music of her Round Dances, the visionary splendor of her Hymns of America. During her lifetime Mistral published four books: Desolation, Tenderness, Clearcut, and Winepress. These are included in the "Complete" Nobel edition published in Madrid; the Poem of Chile, her last book, was printed years after her death. Le Guin includes poems from all five books in this volume, with particular emphasis on the later work. The intelligence and passion of Le Guin's selection and translation will finally allow people in the North to hear the originality, power, purity, and intransigence of this great American voice. Le Guin has published five volumes of her own poetry, an English version of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, and a volume of mutual translation with the Argentine poet Diana Bellessi, The Twins, the Dream/Las Gemalas, El Sueño. Strongly drawn to Mistral's work as soon as she discovered it, Le Guin has been working on this translation for five years.

How long is Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral?

Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral by Gabriela Mistral is 444 pages long, and a total of 112,776 words.

This makes it 150% the length of the average book. It also has 138% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 16 minutes to read Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral aloud.

What Reading Level is Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral?

Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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