Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. You can now listen to Gabriela Mistral reading her poem "La casa" on the Poetry Sound Library map.
Gabriela Mistral The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 Born: 7 April 1889, Vicuña, Chile Died: 10 January 1957, Hempstead, NY, USA Residence at the time of the award: Chile Prize motivation: "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." Language: Spanish Lucila Godoy Alcayaga was born in 1889 in Vicuna, Coquimbo in Chile. She was the daughter of a school teacher and poet, and Alcayaga herself began working as a teacher in her home district at the age of just 15. She continued working as a prominent educator until her poetry became known. She borrowed the pseudonym, Gabriela Mistral, from her favorite poets, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Frédéric Mistral. Lucila Godoy Alcayaga had several assignments within Latin American education systems, worked on various committees, and also served as the Chilean consul in several countries. Gabriela Mistral's poems are characterized by strong emotion and direct language. They are also influenced by the modernist movement. Their central themes are love, deceit, sorrow, nature, travel, and love for children. Her first major work was Desolación, published in 1922. In 1924 came Ternura (Tenderness), which contains lullabies and rhymes for children, and later Tala (Felling) in 1938, which employs unusual imagery and free verse. Gabriela Mistral was also involved in sociopolitical issues and was a well-known op-ed writer for major newspapers in her home country of Chile. She was South America's first ever Nobel Laureate. Gabriela Mistral – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. Thu. 27 Dec 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1945/mistral/facts/>
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Poetry Sound Library has added a fourth marker to the map: the red marker shows on the map an external link to Archives of voices through Soundcloud or other Archives with poets' voices invited to Festivals for example. This will give to the user the possibility to navigate easily through the map and easily find Festivals, Archives and other useful links. In the image you can see the link to Poetry International Rotterdam.
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Today we start our blog's suggestion, a post dedicated to one of our many voices on the map. |
339 voices already on the map, in a few weeks. You can explore, listen, follow the voices in the landscape, you can feel their beauty, fragility and power, vibrations. You can taste them and caress them. On the map you can listen to the present and the past voice. And in the unexplored geography of places not yet illuminated by the poets' voice, you will meet the future of poetry.
We reached 300 voices on the map and we are now working at transforming the voices into waves for our coming up art installation in Italy and UK.
If you could take a look at the place where a poet lives or spent their life; if you could hear the sound of their land, see the trees they loved, the streets they walked, the Café they sat in to write or talk; if you could do that, do you think the poems would become alive again? Here's something for you. Enjoy the landscape of voices on our map.
Giovanna Iorio
Poet, sound artist & Founder of the Poetry Sound Library.
Lives in London, from Italy.
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