{"product_id":"firefly-under-the-tongue-coral-bracho-9780811216845","title":"Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems","description":"Born in 1951 in Mexico City, Coral Bracho has published half a dozen books of poems including the groundbreaking \u003cem\u003eEl ser que va a morir\u003c\/em\u003e (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 them.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From her early collections--\u003cem\u003eBajo el destello liguido\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEl ser\u003c\/em\u003e--to her most recent books \u003cem\u003eLa voluntad del 疥bar\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEse espacio, ese jardin\u003c\/em\u003e (which won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize), \u003cem\u003eFirefly under the Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e offers the first book of English translations by this most important and influential living poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Coral Bracho\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811216845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811216845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.32w x 0.42d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2009 pg. 49","brand":"Coral Bracho","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926341222655,"sku":"9780811216845","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a013a6c8-e47f-4705-a791-199a34659f59.jpg?v=1681082534","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/firefly-under-the-tongue-coral-bracho-9780811216845","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}