Nightmare Running on a Meadow of Absolute Light

by Maria Baranda, Paul Hoover (Translator)

Overview

Maria Baranda is one of the leading Mexican poets of the generation born in the 1960s. Her work has received Mexico’s distinguished Efraín Huerta and Aguascalientes national poetry prizes, as well as Spain’s Francisco de Quevedo Prize for Ibero-American Poetry. She is increasingly known for her sweeping and incisive long poems and book-length projects, and this volume contains two such works: ‘To Tell’ and the title poem.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848615434
Publisher:	Shearsman Books
Publication date:	05/15/2017
Pages:	94
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

María Baranda is one of the leading Mexican poets of the generation born in the 1960s. Her work has received Mexico's distinguished Efraín Huerta and Aguascalientes national poetry prizes, as well as Spain's Francisco de Quevedo Prize for Ibero-American Poetry.

Paul Hoover is the author of the poetry volumes Desolation: Souvenir (2012), Sonnet 56 (2009), Edge and Fold (2006) and Poems in Spanish (2005), which was nominated for a Bay Area Book Award. He is editor of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (1994), a second edition of which appeared in 2013, and co-editor of the literary magazine, New American Writing. He teaches Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

To Tell

Nightmare Running on a Meadow of Absolute Light