Mexican Poet Coral Bracho delivers Keynote at Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture

Coral Bracho is the author of several collections of poetry, including El ser que va a morir (1982); Tierra de entrana ardiente (1992), a collaboration with painter Irma Palacios; Ese espacio, ese jardfn (2003), which won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize; and Cuarto de hotel (2007). Firefly under the Tongue: Selected Poems (2008) was translated by Forrest Gander. Bracho's impact on Mexican poetry has been compared to John  Ashbery's influence on American verse.As Gander observes, "Her diction spills out along ceaselessly shifting beds of sound. Bracho's early poems make sense first as music, and music propels them." A selection of poems from her first two collections was included in the anthologies Medusario (1996, ed. Roberto Echavarren, Jose Kozer, and Jacobo Sefamf), Reversible Monuments: An Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Poetry (2002), and Lfneas Conectadas: nueva poesfa de los Estados Unidos (Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico) (2006, ed.Luis Cortes Bargallo and Forrest Gander).Her poetry was translated for the Poetry Translation Center's 2005 World Poets' Tour by Tom Boll and Katherine Pierpoint.Bracho's honors include the Aguacalientes National Poetry Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship.She lives and teaches in Mexico City.

 

Co-sponsored by the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program

Friday, February 21, 2020 at 3:15pm to 4:15pm

Ekstrom Library, Bingham Poetry Room
2215 S. 3rd Street , Louisville, Kentucky 40208

Event Type

Conferences

Audience

Students, Faculty/staff, Alumni, Public

Departments

Arts & Sciences, Classical/Modern Languages, Latin American & Latino Studies, Spanish

Cost

Free and open to the Public

Contact Name

Manuel Medina

Contact Phone Number

502-852-0501

Contact Email

manuel.medina@louisville.edu

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