Several speakers, including Humberto Diaz Casanueva, an author and Chile's new Ambassador to the United Nations, made plain they re garded the publication as a measure of vindication for the poet who attracted crowds in the hundreds of thousands whenever she vis ited Latin America but went almost unnoticed in the Eng lish‐speaking world. In addition to receiving favorable critical notices, the book was greeted with a pre publication celebration that drew some 200 writers, art ists and diplomats to La Libreria, a Latin American bookstore at 248 East 50th Street. Antonio Frasconi, the well‐known Uruguayan artist, created seven wood cuts to illustrate the volume. Now Miss Dana, an expert in Spanish writing and the executor of Miss Mistral's estate, has made rather splash in the Latin American literary world with a bilin gual edition, “Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral,” just published by the Johns Hop kins Press. I., she left behind hundreds of pages of unpublished manu scripts and thousands of pages that were never trans lated into English. When Gabriela Mistral, the Nobel Prize‐winning Chilean poet, died in 1957 at the home of her friend Doris Dana, in Roslyn Harbor, L.
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