Status Updates From Selected Poems of Gabriela ...

It took the white male Anglo literary establishment twelve years to publish Mistral, first Latin American laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in English. Then there's the fact that her relationships, or "passionate friendships" as Wikipedia likes to gloss over, with both men and women gets parsed as either heterosexual or lesbian by the most vocal proponents. Give me a non-monosexual break.

I have been skipping around as usual. I find these poems very readable & very moving...

Introduction:
She did not sign her poetry with her own name, Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga, because as a young teacher she feared, if it became known that she wrote such emotionally outspoken verses, she might lose her job. Instead she created for herself another name—taking from the archangel Gabriel her first name, and from a sea wind the second.