Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems
Coral Bracho
(Author)
Forrest Gander
(Translator)
Description
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 under the Tongue offers the first book of English translations by this most important and influential living poet.
Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.76
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
April 01, 2008
Pages
144
Dimensions
6.32 X 8.96 X 0.42 inches | 0.48 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811216845
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About the Author
CORAL BRACHO was born in Mexico City in 1951. She is the author of several books of poems including Tierra de entrana ardiente, a collaboration with the painter Irma Palacios. Among her grants and prizes are the Aguascalientes 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.
Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in California. He taught at Harvard University and Brown University. Gander is a translator and the author of many books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. He has received a Pulitzer Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, Whiting, and United States Artists Foundations.
Reviews
Bracho combines a quiet inwardness that is also a vulnerable openness. One wishes there were more.--Alan Gilbert
The accomplishment of a sensitive artist.... The poems are a challenge and a pleasure to the reader.--Rosita Chazarreta-Rourke
Challenging, enigmatic poetry.... fluid oneiric lines that eschew history and linear time.--Steven F. White
Now, more than ever...we need poems like Bracho's to document a more ethical stance to the living planet.--Edythe Haendel Schwartz
The accomplishment of a sensitive artist.... The poems are a challenge and a pleasure to the reader.--Rosita Chazarreta-Rourke
Challenging, enigmatic poetry.... fluid oneiric lines that eschew history and linear time.--Steven F. White
Now, more than ever...we need poems like Bracho's to document a more ethical stance to the living planet.--Edythe Haendel Schwartz
