Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems
A vibrant and compelling bilingual edition of poems by the acclaimed Mexican writer Jeanette Clariond, translated by Pulitzer Prize–winner Forrest Gander

Even Time Bleeds is a revelatory selection of the work of Jeannette Clariond, a major contemporary Mexican poet known for her sensuous lyricism and philosophical gravity. Translated and introduced by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Forrest Gander, this volume gathers poems from across Clariond’s career and presents the English translations and the original Spanish texts on facing pages. Whether writing about science or Romanticism, childhood or the Chihuahua Desert, ancient Mexican myths or the pandemic of Mexican femicides, Clariond displays a complex self-consciousness that captures much about contemporary identity in Mexico and beyond. Born in 1949 into a Lebanese family that emigrated to Mexico, Clariond has spent much of her life traveling between Mexico, the United States, and Spain, and she writes about varieties of exile and the fearsome complexity of the US–Mexican border with rare insight. Even rarer: she gives voice to her own interiority in a way that is accessible and piercing, as though her true country is inside of each reader.

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Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems
A vibrant and compelling bilingual edition of poems by the acclaimed Mexican writer Jeanette Clariond, translated by Pulitzer Prize–winner Forrest Gander

Even Time Bleeds is a revelatory selection of the work of Jeannette Clariond, a major contemporary Mexican poet known for her sensuous lyricism and philosophical gravity. Translated and introduced by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Forrest Gander, this volume gathers poems from across Clariond’s career and presents the English translations and the original Spanish texts on facing pages. Whether writing about science or Romanticism, childhood or the Chihuahua Desert, ancient Mexican myths or the pandemic of Mexican femicides, Clariond displays a complex self-consciousness that captures much about contemporary identity in Mexico and beyond. Born in 1949 into a Lebanese family that emigrated to Mexico, Clariond has spent much of her life traveling between Mexico, the United States, and Spain, and she writes about varieties of exile and the fearsome complexity of the US–Mexican border with rare insight. Even rarer: she gives voice to her own interiority in a way that is accessible and piercing, as though her true country is inside of each reader.

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Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems

Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems

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Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems

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A vibrant and compelling bilingual edition of poems by the acclaimed Mexican writer Jeanette Clariond, translated by Pulitzer Prize–winner Forrest Gander

Even Time Bleeds is a revelatory selection of the work of Jeannette Clariond, a major contemporary Mexican poet known for her sensuous lyricism and philosophical gravity. Translated and introduced by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Forrest Gander, this volume gathers poems from across Clariond’s career and presents the English translations and the original Spanish texts on facing pages. Whether writing about science or Romanticism, childhood or the Chihuahua Desert, ancient Mexican myths or the pandemic of Mexican femicides, Clariond displays a complex self-consciousness that captures much about contemporary identity in Mexico and beyond. Born in 1949 into a Lebanese family that emigrated to Mexico, Clariond has spent much of her life traveling between Mexico, the United States, and Spain, and she writes about varieties of exile and the fearsome complexity of the US–Mexican border with rare insight. Even rarer: she gives voice to her own interiority in a way that is accessible and piercing, as though her true country is inside of each reader.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691280462
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 01/13/2026
Series: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jeannette L. Clariond is an award-winning Mexican writer and translator. She has published many collections of her own poetry as well as Spanish translations of Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Carson, Primo Levi, and other writers. Forrest Gander is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and translator whose most recent book of poems is Mojave Ghost. His many translations include Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda and It Must Be a Misunderstanding by Coral Bracho.

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“Clariond's poetry reminds us that imagination keeps watch over reality, that reality itself is asleep, and that only her poetry is capable of waking it. Poetry, in this sense, is not so much the poem, but the primitive vision that the poet questions with her sensitivity, imagination, and hope. Hers is a voice that imagines, dreams, and feels at the same time; and so her poetry thinks.”—Adonis, winner of the Goethe Prize and the PEN/Nabokov Award

“I would give it all up just to write, for example, these two lines that comprise the extraordinary conclusion to one of her poems: ‘Sangra en el vidrio, / astillada, la claridad’ (Bleeding on the glass, / splintered, the clarity).”—Gonzalo Rojas, winner of the Cervantes Prize and the Reina Sofía Prize

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