Intimate, intense poems forge a language for life when life is at stake
In her most recent book, Watchword--the winner of the Villaurrutia, Mexico's most esteemed literary prize--acclaimed poet Pura L pez Colom 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, L pez Colom 's poems have flashes of secular mysticism,...