Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems
Born in 1951 in Mexico City, Coral Bracho has published half a dozen books of poems including the groundbreaking El ser que va a morir (1982) which changed the course of Mexican poetry. Her exquisite long-lined poems evoke the sensual realm where logic is disbanded, wonder evoked. In the words of her translator Forrest Gander, Her diction spills out along ceaselessly shifting beds of sound....Bracho's poems make sense first as music, and music propels them.From her early collections-Bajo el destello liguido and El ser-to her most recent books La voluntad del ámbar and Ese espacio, ese jardin (which won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize), Firefly…
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Weitere Autoren: Gander, Forrest (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1684-5
- EAN: 9780811216845
- Produktnummer: 3483753
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 133 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.1 cm 218 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 1095
- Gewicht: 218
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Coral Bracho is the author of six books of poems including Tierra de entrana ardiente, in which she collaborated with the painter Irma Palacios. Among her grants and prizes are the Aguacalientes National Poetry Prize in 1981 and a Guggenheim fellowship in 2000. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bomb, Conjunctions, The Nation, and Poetry International.
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