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On Tuesday, April 11 from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, the Poetry Salon will meet to discuss the poems of Gabriela Mistral of Chile. In 1945, Mistral became the first Latin American writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Mistral’s poems are characterized by strong emotion and direct language. Their central themes are love, deceit, sorrow, nature, travel, and love for children. Mistral’s first major work was Desolación, published in 1922. In 1924 came Ternura (Tenderness), which contains lullabies and rhymes for children, and later Tala (Felling) in 1938, which employs unusual imagery and free verse.
Apparently, Mistral adopted her pseudonym by combining the names of two poets she admired: Gabriele D’Annunzio and Frederic Mistral. In her lifetime, Mistral was a Chilean consul in Naples, Madrid, and Lisbon, and taught Spanish literature at Columbia University, Vassar College, Middlebury College, and the University of Puerto Rico.
On April 11, please join Claire Keyes, Professor Emerita at Salem State University, for a discussion of Mistral’s poems from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm at Abbot Public Library on Brook Road. You may participate in person or via Zoom. To attend via Zoom, please register in advance for this meeting here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
This event is sponsored by the generosity of the Friends of the Abbot Public Library.
Poetry packets are available near the library’s Main Desk or online here: Gabriela Mistral Poetry Packets.