Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
Feb 8, 2012
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN-10
0819571180
ISBN-13
9780819571182
Description
Intimate, intense poems forge a language for life when life is at stake
In her most recent book, Watchword―the winner of the Villaurrutia, Mexico's most esteemed literary prize―acclaimed poet Pura López Colomé 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, López Colomé'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.
In her most recent book, Watchword―the winner of the Villaurrutia, Mexico's most esteemed literary prize―acclaimed poet Pura López Colomé 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, López Colomé'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.