by Pura Lopez Colome (Author), Forrest Gander (Translator)
An excellent selection and valued addition to anyone’s cherished poetry collection. –D. L. Keur, The Deepening World of Books
ABOUT THIS NEW POETRY BOOK
In her most recent book, Watchword–the winner of the Villaurrutia, Mexico’s most esteemed literary prize–acclaimed poet Pura Lopez Colome writes of life at its brink with fierce honesty and an unblinking eye. This work shares the darkness, intensity, and skeptical hope of Thomas Hardy’s great poems. Like them, Lopez Colome’s poems have flashes of secular mysticism, sparked from language itself, which generate unforgettable passages and give voice to a world familiar and odd, wounded and buoyant. In the energy and intensity of her work and in her exhilarating words, we discover both a line of conduct and the source for a richer life. This bilingual edition features the poems en face in Spanish and English.
- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Wesleyan; Bilingual Spanish-English ed. edition (February 8, 2012)
- Language: English
ABOUT THE POET
PURA LOPEZ COLOME is the author of several books, including El sueno del cazador, Aurora, Intemperie, as well as the collected poems Musica inaudita. FORREST GANDER is a noted poet and translator. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Core Samples from the World. His most recent translation, Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho, was a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize. He is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University.
Ute Carson manages to find universal truths in ordinary things, and clothes them in language that is at once beautiful and profoundly universal. The result is a music that sings in our very core. Leticia Austria, Poet The author employs a number of poetic tools to convey her thoughts, including wonderful imagery and simple yet effective phrasing. Harmony McGlothlin, Publisher & Editor Grace Notes Books and Editor-in Chief of Notes Magazine A gladness for life and family is countered by occasional poem lines of survived horror. Such lines render the poet steeled in mind and intensely honed to mankind’s fallacies. Ute Carson’s Just a Few Feathers is a collection one wants to keep close by and refer to often. Kaye Voight Abikahled, The Poetry Society of Texas, Counselor for the Austin Area
ABOUT THIS POETRY BOOK