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Firefly under the Tongue: Selected Poems

By Coral Bracho, Forrest Gander (Translator)
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By Coral Bracho, Forrest Gander (Translator)
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A brilliantly translated bilingual edition of poems by one of Mexico's foremost woman poets.

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...

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PoetryLatin American & Caribbean Poetry