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No Shelter: The Selected Poems of Pura Lopez-Colome

No Shelter: The Selected Poems of Pura Lopez-Colome

Gander, Forrest
López-Colomé, Pura

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 1555973604
ISBN13: 9781555973605
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Apr 1 2002
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A Lannan Translation Selection

Beautifully translated by the award-winning American poet Forrest Gander, the work of highly esteemed Mexican poet Pura López-Colomé is, with this important volume, available in the US for the first time. Selected by Gander from throughout López-Colomé's five books in Spanish, these exceptional poems confront the confinements of fate, history, and misbegotten beliefs.

In forms that blur back and forth between poetry and prose, López-Colomé uses spare and honest language to describe the music of dreams, faith, and faithlessness; hers are poems of the soul resuscitated from the shackles of the body. As Gander notes in his Introduction: [This] poetry is philosophical and exacting, pared into short, sharp lines, obsidian flakes. Indeed, the fierce intelligence and insistent moral and spiritual engagement of López-Colomé's poetry situate her among the most significant contemporary Mexican poets. No Shelter is a bilingual edition, with English translations appearing in the first half of the text and the Spanish originals in the second.

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