Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction
• I. Desolation:
• Rodin's the Thinker, For the Hebrew People, The Lone Child, Ballad, The Sonnets of Death, prayer, The Bones of the Dead, Patagonian Landscape, To the Clouds, autumn, Summit
• II. Tenderness
• Rocking, Discovery, Mexican Child, Fear, The Rat, The Air, Mountain, Larks, The Earth
• Feeling:
• Flight, The Rose, The Foreigner, Drinking, We were All going to be Queens, Things, Catalonian Women
• IV. Wine Press
• The Other, The Fall of Europe, Hospital, Helpers, The Jewish Refugee, Daybreak; Morning; Evening; Night, The Last Tree
• V. Poem of Chile
• Waking up, My Mountain, Patch of Clover, Valparaiso, Poplar Groves, Talcahuano, Apple Trees, Ferns Southern Islands, Bibliograhy.

About the Author

Paul Burns is an Oxford modern-language scholar who has combined publishing with translating for most of his life, recently also writing Lives of Saints. Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres is Principal Language Tutor at the University of Warwick and the author of numerous translations, books and articles. Their first joint translation in this series, Antonio Machado: Lands of Castile and Other Poems, appeared in 2002, and they are preparing a translation of a novella by Miguel de Unamuno.

Reviews

...a highly recommended no-nonsense introduction to the work of Mistral'