Poetry
Antología lírica
Not translated into English
Sarah Bollo · 1948
Synopsis
A selection of poems that the author made herself from her earlier books; the table of contents of the volume has not come down to us. Her poetry, as her readers describe it, keeps the verse of traditional form and a great wealth of images; it includes ballads, nocturnes and religious poems, in which the speaker kneels before a silent bronze Christ and compares herself to the prodigal son, or praises the sun and the love of God beneath a moon like a blade and pines like braziers of shadow.
Context
The anthology appeared in 1948, the same year as Ariel prisionero, Ariel libertado. It follows Diálogos de las luces perdidas (1927), Los nocturnos del fuego, Regreso, a collection of religious poems (1934), Baladas del corazón cercano (1935) and Ciprés de púrpura (1944), with a preface by Américo Castro. A review in the Chilean journal Atenea, devoted to Los nocturnos del fuego, praises a poetry that is “profundamente humana”, whose wealth of images does not make one forget the tradition of verse.
Who it is for
An anthology of poems in Spanish, in regular verse, easy to approach; no French translation.
Prizes and reception
The volume in which the poetess herself offers her verse work to read; one of her first collections had been praised by Chilean critics.
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