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Watchword / Pura López Colomé ; translated by Forrest Gander.

Van Pelt Library PQ7298.22.O56715 S2613 2012
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
López Colomé, Pura, 1952-
Contributor:
Gander, Forrest, 1956-
Standardized Title:
Santo y seña. English
Language:
English
Spanish
Physical Description:
xiii, 159 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2012]
Language Note:
Text in English and Spanish.
Summary:
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.
Contents:
Spanish
Prefacio de traductor (en ingles)
Quien eres, que
Tibuchina
Tres escenas lacustres
Eco
Llaga profunda
Almendra
Acaso Borneo
Dos Poemas Luctuosos, Tardios
El cuadro de mi vida
Dialogo de las cenizas
Fabula disuelta, ensimismada
Y el anturio, impavido
Que escandalo
Cor cordis
Pasa
Celda
Vision
Una mancha
Colas
Atormentada
Ano Uno
Conejo / Ano Luz
Liebre
Dulzura
Machihembrado
Sueno de musica estelar
Los viejos almacenes
Contar los hilos
Agua helada
Aborescencias
Imitatio Christi
Gueiro
Allee Marie Laurent
English
Translator's Preface
Who Are You; What
Tibuchina Flower
Three Lacustrine Scenes
Echo
Deep Wound
Almond
Maybe Borneo
Two Poems of Mourning (Belatedly)
My Life's Portrait
Dialogue of the Ashes
Dehiscent, Enraptured Invention
And the Intrepid Anthurium
The Roar
Heart's Core
Come On In
Cell
A Mark
Tails
Tormented
First Year: Rabbit / Light Year: Hare
Sweetness
Tongue-and-grooved
Dreaming a Music of the Stars
Those Old Grocery Shops
Counting Threads
Ice Cold Water
Arborescences
Yokel
Poet's Afterword
Ethereal Slipknot: The Intangible Integrity of the Poetic Word (On winning the Villaurrutia Prize).
ISBN:
9780819571182
0819571180
OCLC:
753351143

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