Poems
Translated by Katherine Pierpoint & Tom Boll
• Poetry
• Paperback
Description: Coral Bracho was born in Mexico City in 1951. She has published six books of poems in Spanish. Bracho's early poems marry verbal luxuriance with a keen intelligence and awareness of artistic process. Of her poem Water of Jellyfish, she said: ‘It tries to get close to the movement of water' with images that are ‘fleeting'; ‘you can't grasp them, they are very fluid. What remains is that continuity of water.' Her collection, That Space, That Garden (2003) is an extended meditation on the passage of time and the death at the heart of all life. It was awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 2004. Tom Boll was the assistant director of the Poetry Translation Centre from 2004-7. He is preparing a book on Octavio Paz and T. S. Eliot for publication, and has taught in the departments of English and Spanish and Latin American Studies at University College, London. Katherine Pierpoint published her first collection of poetry Truffle Beds in 1995. The book won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Katherine's poems have appeared in Spanish in the anthology La generación del cordero: antología de la poesía actual en las islas británicas edited by Pedro Serrano and Carlos López Beltrán (Trilce Ediciones Mexico 2000). She was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
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