Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems

by Coral Bracho and Forrest Gander

Book Overview

Born in 1951 in Mexico City, Coral Bracho has published half a dozen books of poems including the groundbreaking El ser que va a morir (1982) which changed the course of Mexican poetry. Her exquisite long-lined poems evoke the sensual realm where logic is disbanded, wonder evoked. In the words of her translator Forrest Gander, "Her diction spills out along ceaselessly shifting beds of sound....Bracho's poems make sense first as music, and music propels...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811216845
• ISBN13: 9780811216845
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.0"