Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander. "Pura Lopez Colome's...poetry is philosophical and exacting, pared into sharp, dark lines, obsidian shards. Her imagination...is marked by a kind of moral severity located in language itself; the poems are less concerned with representing the observable surface of life than with tracing the melodies and absences of a spiritual vision"--from the afterword by Forrest Gander.
Author City: Cuernavaca MEX