by Gabriela Mistral · Averso Poesía · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788412664010
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«Ternura» is Gabriela Mistral's poetry collection, published by Averso Poesía in paperback (238 pages, in Spanish).
A poetry collection centered on the world of childhood: Gabriela Mistral adopts the voice of Latin American lullabies and writes in a direct, sweet, unadorned language to reach children. The author also gives presence to historically silenced identities —indigenous peoples, peasants, women— so that tenderness becomes a way of seeing and of claiming.
First volume of the Averso Collection. The collection was originally published in 1924; this edition is from 2023. It features the collaboration of Pablo Quintela.
For readers of poetry and Latin American literature interested in discovering a lesser-known facet of Gabriela Mistral, Nobel Prize in Literature.
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.
