No Shelter: The Selected Poems of Pura Lopez-Colome

by Forrest Gander, Pura Lopez-Colome, Pura López-Colomé, et al.

Book Overview

A Lannan Translation Selection

Beautifully translated by the award-winning American poet Forrest Gander, the work of highly esteemed Mexican poet Pura L pez-Colom is, with this important volume, available in the US for the first time. Selected by Gander from throughout L pez-Colom '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, L pez-Colom 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 L pez-Colom '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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555973604
• ISBN13: 9781555973605
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"