| Watchword Contributor(s): López Colomé, Pura (Author), Gander, Forrest (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0819571180 ISBN-13: 9780819571182 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
| Dewey: 861.64 |
| LCCN: 2011038188 |
| Series: Wesleyan Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.41" W x 9.25" (1.10 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |