Madwomen: The "Locas mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition | 
#OnThisDay in 1889 Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. In 1945, Mistral became the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world". Several of her works have been translated into English by such luminaries as Langston Hughes and Ursula K. LeGuin. #HistoryGetsLIT
My great aunts used to read me Mistral‘s poems in Spanish. It‘s about time I revisit them.
so-soI will always be ambivalent towards poetry, so I don‘t dare reviewing it. So let‘s talk instead about this edition.
The book includes a short bio about the author, explanations about her style and some background for a couple of the poems and a lot about the translator‘s approach. I thought that was really nice.
BUT the formatting of the Kindle version is horrendous in the poems portion of the book; mixing Spanish and English.
#aprilbookshowers Day 23 I posted about this one on Day 7 and still haven't started it. 😬 #poetry #catchingup
#aprilbookshowers Day 7 I'm currently read the Chernobyl book and plan to start Madwomen soon. #womenintranslation #horriblelighting
I am woefully behind on my #latinxauthors but I recently finished this fantastic collection of poetry by Gabriela Mistral and couldn't think of a better title to use for this one. #feistyfeb @RealLifeReading
pickA beautiful collection from one of the Nobel Laureates in Literature. These madwomen are mad but not insane, they are angry, fierce, broken, and so many more things. I love this edition because it has both the translated English for me to read and the original Spanish versions. It also has a short biography is Mistral, which was nice. #readingNobelwomen
