Langston Hughes translated many of the poems of this author, whose 1922 compilation Desolacion includes the sections "La Escuela" and "Dolor," as well as three poems inspired by the suicide of her fiancee Romelio Ureta.
She wrote about the desire of her childhood friends to rule over "four kingdoms on the sea" in "We Were All to be Queens." Her final book, Lagar, was written after the death of her friend Stefan Zweig, and she memorialized the death of her mother in her poems "The Flight" and "Lapida Filial," which appear in her collection Tala. Langston Hughes translated many of the poems of this author, whose 1922 compilation Desolacion includes the sections "La Escuela" and "Dolor," as well as three poems inspired by the suicide of her fiancee Romelio Ureta. Taking her pen name from the French poet of The Song of the Rhone, FTP, name this Chilean poet best known for the Sonnets of Death.
She wrote about the desire of her childhood friends to rule over "four kingdoms on the sea" in "We Were All to be Queens."
Gabriela {Mistral} [or Lucila Godoy {Alcayaga}]