by Gabriela Mistral · Espasa-Calpe SA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423990191
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«Ronda de astros» is Gabriela Mistral's poetry collection, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (121 pages, in Spanish).
This work brings together poems born from the childhood memories that Gabriela Mistral kept of Chile and Mexico, and adds guidance for readers to take their first steps in poetic writing.
It belongs to the Espasa Juvenil collection. Poetry, number 50. It is the ninth edition, published in 1998, and includes illustrations by Luis de Horna.
Recommended for readers aged 10 and up and for those beginning to discover poetry in the children's and young adult sphere.
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean poet-diplomat, journalist and educator. She read widely in theosophy, became a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or Third Franciscan order in 1925, but rarely attended mass. She was the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945, "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". Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Native American and European influences. She also wrote an immense body of prose, about 800 articles that circulated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, on a range of topics: geography, education, profiles of her fellow writers, politics, and more. Her image is featured on the 5,000 Chilean peso banknote.
