Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature. The Locas mujeres poems collected here are among Mistral's most complex and compelling, exploring facets of the self in extremis - poems marked by the wound of blazing catastrophe and its aftermath of mourning. Madwomen promises to reveal a profound poet to a new generation while reacquainting Spanish readers with a stranger, more complicated 'madwoman' than most have ever known.
- ISBN10 0226531910
- ISBN13 9780226531915
- Publish Date 1 October 2009 (first published 15 April 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition Bilingual ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 184
- Language English