along with photographs and other belongings of Nobel prize-winning Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral have been found in the United States, a Santiago newspaper said today.from Herald Sun: Poems by Nobel laureate Mistral found
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along with photographs and other belongings of Nobel prize-winning Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral have been found in the United States, a Santiago newspaper said today.
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The real question will be, can these poems and letters, a real treasure trove, be made available to ALL, or will they disappear, be pilfered, or sent to gather dust in boxes, or be published piecemeal to maximize the news-effect-release, as has happened with such collections and such discoveries, so often in the past?
"poetry must belong to all" said Rimbaud, whose last letters were part of Neruda's collection that vanished...
Thanks for your comment.
I wonder if there are indications within this extraordinary package of writings and photos, as to what Gabriela Mistral's wishes were. Beyond that they were willed to Dora Atkinson, was their some intent?
But you raise the question, and that is that these findings, if placed into the "wrong" hands, and even if well-meaning hands, for any period, could be placed in jeopardy. It's that worry that you commuicate to me. And I wonder if there should not be some US governmental policy in place, that the wishes of the deceased--and in this circumstance Dora Atkinson wishing that this cache go somewhere into Chile (where it just may "belong" according to Mistral's will)--that the wishes of the deceased be honored, but before this, the socially vital belongings be digitally reproduced and placed into unpublished safe-keeping, some "vault".
I guess I am just not ready to relinquish the copyright laws, even though they frustrate me. For instance, some of Robert Frost's works are still covered--yet readily available. Much of Jack Kerouac's, though is not so readily available.
Yours,
Rus
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