No Shelter

by Pura Lopez Colome

Forrest Gander (Translator)

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A Lannan Translation Selection

Beautifully translated by the award-winning American poet Forrest Gander, the work of highly esteemed Mexican poet Pura L pez-Colom is, with this important volume, available in the US for the first time. Selected by Gander from throughout L pez-Colom 's five books in Spanish, these exceptional poems confront the confinements of fate, history, and misbegotten beliefs.

In forms that blur back and forth between poetry and prose, L pez-Colom uses spare and honest language to describe the music of dreams, faith, and faithlessness; hers are poems of the soul resuscitated from the shackles of the...

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  • ISBN10 1555973604
  • ISBN13 9781555973605
  • Publish Date 1 April 2002
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 100
  • Language English