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Watchword
Pura Lopez-Colome
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Description for Watchword
hardcover. Intimate, intense poems forge a language for life when life is at stake Translator(s): Gander, Forrest. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819571182
SKU
V9780819571182
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Ref
99-3
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