Gabriela Mistral

Who writes "I"? How is the scene of writing represented in autobiographical texts? To whom are autobiographies addressed? What kinds of readers are inscribed in autobiographical narratives? In Apology to Apostrophe, James D. Fernandez offers a lucid and powerful meditation on the nature of autobiographical writing through his investigation of the historical conditions and literary stagings of autobiographical writing in Spain. As Fernandez demonstrates, recent developments in critical theory provide new and fruitful approaches to autobiographical works that have long been neglected,...

It's evening in the forest and Little Owl wakes up from his day-long sleep to watch his friends enjoying the night. Hedgehog sniffs for mushrooms, Skunk nibbles at berries, Frog croaks, and Cricket sings. A full moon rises and Little Owl can't understand why anyone would want to miss it. Could the daytime be nearly as wonderful?

Mirka Arriagada Vladilo. Poeta, psiquiatra y documentalista, nacida en Antofagasta, en 1964. Estudió medicina en la Universidad de Chile en la década de 1980, donde desempeñó el rol de coordinadora cultural. Formación de Psiquiatra en Instituto Psiquiátrico Dr. José Horwitz Barack. Formación en terapia dinámica y estudios psicoanalíticos. En 1987 funda junto a otros poetas el colectivo de poesía Lilith que concluye su trabajo en 1990 con el “Primer encuentro de Poetas jóvenes Chileno- Argentino en Democracia”. Participa en los talleres literarios de Cecilia Casanova y de...

C sar Vallejo is one of the finest poets of Latin America, and his poetry has managed to maintain a broad readership base right up until the modern day. Since Vallejo's posthumous poems were first published in 1939 in an edition supervised by his widow, Georgette de Vallejo, there remain to this day a number of unanswered questions about them. In what order did Vallejo write the poems? Would he have published the poems as they are? This book, by a careful analysis of the evidence available, proposes a new chronology for the posthumous poems, suggesting that the Peruvian poet's work went...