This writer compares a fruit's tough exterior to that of a fallen Amazon warrior in "The Pineapple," and depicts an artist "losing all she had," in "The Ballerina."  In addition to two poems "in praise of sand," this author of "The Voice of Elqui" also wrote critical studies
This writer compares a fruit's tough exterior to that of a fallen Amazon warrior in "The Pineapple," and depicts an artist "losing all she had," in "The Ballerina."  In addition to two poems "in praise of sand," this author of "The Voice of Elqui" also wrote critical studies of Alfonsina Storni and Alfonso Reyes and looked to religion for subject matter in such works as "The Song to St. Francis" and "Motifs of the Passion."  This author's second collection of poems, includes such works as "Children's Hair" and "The Rural Schoolteacher," and was inspired by the suicide of her lover Romelio Ureta.  That work was followed by such volumes as The Mothers' Poems and a long work about her homeland, Poem of Chile.  For 10 points, identify this author of Ternura, Desolacion, and the Sonnets of Death.
This writer compares a fruit's tough exterior to that of a fallen Amazon warrior in "The Pineapple," and depicts an artist "losing all she had," in "The Ballerina."  
Gabriela Mistral or Lucilla Godoy Alcayaga