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He was guided over to a seat next to Adam Pitluck, Executive Editor of , who would be talking with Baca about his life and writing.

Pitluck began by reading some of Baca's poems, and then telling the packed room that Baca's work had a profound effect on him when he first discovered it as a high school student. "What kind of effect could poetry have on a sixteen year old?" he rhetorically asked. "This is not 'But soft! What light through yonder window breaks!' poetry-this is rust under your fingernails, dust in your eyes, blood in your mouth poetry. This is poetry that was forged in a maximum-security prison in Florence, Arizona."

He talked about receiving an advance reading copy of Baca's latest book, Singing at the Gates, and said: "I read it in one sitting. It made me blush in some areas, made me feel capable of murder in others, and, as with all his other works, I couldn't stop, I had to read it in one sitting, start to finish." That's when Pitluck contacted Baca's publicist to try to arrange a meeting.

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Jimmy Santiago Baca (all photos courtesy of Gesi Schilling) This Sunday a man in a straw fedora stood outside of Books & Books in Coral Gables, holding a prime parking space in front of the store, and saying to no one in

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Gabriela Mistral was the first female Latin American poet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. She received it in 1945 for:
"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"
' Nobel Citation

Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym for Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga. Her personal life was marked with tragedy. She was born in Vicuna, Chile in 1889 but her father left the family at the age of 3. By the age of 16 she was supporting her mother by working as a teacher's aide. In 1906 she met Romeo Ureta, who became the great love of her life.
"Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe"
- Gabriela Mistral

Unfortunately he killed himself in 1909 and this left a profound impact upon her life. Even more tragically, Gabriela was also later to see her nephew (whom she looked upon as a son) commit suicide at the age of 17.However despite personal setbacks Gabriela was able to pursue a very successful career in education. This was partly because she became a successful writer. She had many works published, dealing with many issues related to education and poetry.

Many of the poems in Ternura deal with themes from childhood. However her poems also express much deeper ideas as well. Mistral wrote frequently of images such as love (especially motherly love). Mistral's poems were influenced by her Christian faith - she was a lay member of the Franciscan order. A recurrent theme in some of her poetry is the concept of 'rebirth' after death -a liberation from the world. In the 1930s Francisco Donoso, a Chilean author and priest, wrote that "almost all of Gabriela Mistral's poems have the accent of a prayer".

This is an example of her poetry which expresses her awareness of the delicacy of nature.

"No maguellers a la tierra / no aprietes a la olorosa, / Por el amor de ella abÃ¡jate, / huÃla y dale la boca."

(Do not trample the earth, do not crush the sweet-smelling fruit.
For love of it, bend down, smell it and give it your mouth.)

Mistral passed away in 1957, on her tomb were inscribed her own words:

"What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,"

Margot Arce de Vazquez says of Gabriela Mistral:

" Gabriela was to Spanish - America what Unamuno was to modern Spain. She represented the basic and typical essence of our race as Unamuno represented that which was typically Spanish. She carried within her a fusion of Basque and Indian heritage: Spanish in her rebellious, individualistic spirit; very Indian in her long, deep silences and in that priestly aura of stone idol. To this representative cultural value must be added the great value of her literary work, an incomparable document for what it reveals of her person and for its unique American accent."

(From Gabriela Mistral: The Poet and her work, NYUP 1964)

As well as being a poet Gabriela played an important role in the educational systems of Mexico and Chile, was active in cultural committees of the League of Nations, and was Chilean consul in Naples, Madrid, and Lisbon. She held honorary degrees from the Universities of Florence and Guatemala and was an honorary member of various cultural societies in Chile as well as in the United States, Spain, and Cuba. She taught Spanish literature in the United States at Columbia University, Middlebury College, Vassar College, and at the University of Puerto Rico.
Poems of Gabriela Mistral
View: Gabriela Mistral Poems

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Gabriela Mistral was the first female Latin American poet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. She received it in 1945 for: "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" ' Nobel Citation Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym for Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga.

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"It has to be from here,
- Julia de Burgos (Puerto Rican),

1954-1953, Poet, revolutionary activist.
Latino Quote Of The Day is curated by Bobby Gonzalez.
Bobby González is a nationally known multicultural motivational speaker, storyteller and poet. Born and raised in the South Bronx, New York City, he grew up in a bicultural environment. Bobby draws on his Native American (Taino) and Latino (Puerto Rican) roots to offer a unique repertoire of discourses, readings and performances that celebrates his indigenous heritage.
For more info on Bobby, visit www.BobbyGonzalez.com

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Latino Quote Of The Day By Julia De Burgos

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"It has to be from here, - Julia de Burgos (Puerto Rican), 1954-1953, Poet, revolutionary activist. Latino Quote Of The Day is curated by Bobby Gonzalez. Bobby González is a nationally known multicultural motivational speaker, storyteller and poet. Born and raised in the South Bronx, New York City, he grew up in a bicultural environment.

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Poet, playwright, actor, and educator Kristiana Rae Colón earned a BA at the University of Chicago and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of the chapbooks pieces of shedu (2008) and promised instruments (2013), which won the inaugural Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize.

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Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 - 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda was a Chilean ...