Pura L. Colomé (Book order)

Pura L. Colomé Book order

A Mexican poet and translator, her work has appeared in various literary journals and cultural supplements. She contributes poetry, essays, and translations of English-language poetry and prose. Her writing explores diverse themes through both original poetic and essayistic forms, as well as through insightful translations that bridge linguistic and cultural divides.

Mother Tongue

128 pages
5 hours of reading

Pura López Colomé's true home is language rather than geographical place, and her poetry pays tribute to this debt to the mother tongue as source, origin, identity and consolation. She reflects on the nature of memory and its relationship to language, on the inescapability of the past, the possibility or impossibility of meaning while resisting comfortable or easy answers. Her language is distilled to an apparent essence, at all times probing suggestive and fearless.