Colomé, Pura López. Watchword. Middletown. 2012. Wesleyan University Press. 9780819571182. Wesleyan Poetry Series. Translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander. 176 pages. hardcover.

FROM THE PUBLISHER -

In her most recent book, Watchword-the winner of the Villaurrutia, Mexico's most esteemed literary prize-acclaimed poet Pura López Colomé writes of life at its brink with fierce honesty and an unblinking eye.   This work shares the darkness, intensity, and skeptical hope of Thomas Hardy's great poems.   Like them, López Colomé's poems have flashes of secular mysticism, sparked from language itself, which generate unforgettable passages and give voice to a world familiar and odd, wounded and buoyant.   In the energy and intensity of her work and in her exhilarating words, we discover both a line of conduct and the source for a richer life.   This bilingual edition features the poems en face in Spanish and English.   

PURA LÓPEZ COLOMÉ is the Villaurrutia Prize–winning author of several important books, including El sueño del cazador, Aurora, and Intemperie, as well as a volume of collected poems, Música inaudita.