Gabriela Mistral's Letters to Doris Dana

by Gabriela Mistral

Book Overview

The Nobel Prize-winning poet Gabriela Mistral is celebrated by her native Chile as the mother of the nation even though she spent most of her life in Mexico, Europe, and the United States. Throughout the Spanish-speaking world and especially in Chile, Mistral was characterized as a sad, traditionally Catholic spinster. Yet her voluminous correspondence with Doris Dana, long believed to be her secretary, reveals that the two women were lovers from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826359566
• ISBN13: 9780826359568
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"