Mother Tongue

by Lopez Colome, Pura

• ISBN13: 9781903631324
• ISBN10: 1903631327
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-30
• Publisher: Arlen House

Summary

Pura Lopez Colome'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. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 10
Preface	p. 11
Translator's Note	p. 13
Among Volcanoes
Dramatis Personae	p. 19
Stricto Sensu	p. 20
Heartache	p. 21
Precision Balance	p. 22
Soothsayer	p. 23
Prism	p. 25
Dreaming of Star Music	p. 28
Article of Faith	p. 30
Among Volcanoes	p. 31
Cradle-Song
Brief Episode	p. 35
Cradle-Song	p. 36
Painstaking	p. 43
Cotton	p. 47
Foundling	p. 49
Passing Through	p. 53
Sacrifice
King	p. 57
Sacrifice	p. 60
Epimone	p. 61
Sweetness	p. 62
Schism	p. 65
Et in secula seculorum	p. 66
The Snow-White Falls of Niagara	p. 67
Entre volcanes
Dramatis Personae	p. 73
Stricto Sensu	p. 74
Dolor de corazon	p. 75
El fiel de la balanza	p. 76
Aruspice	p. 77
Prisma	p. 79
Sueno de musica estelar	p. 82
Articulo de fe	p. 84
Entre volcanes	p. 85
Cancion de cuna
Breve episodio	p. 89
Cancion de cuna	p. 90
A duras penas	p. 97
Algodon	p. 101
Adoptivo	p. 103
De paso	p. 107
Sacrificio
Rey	p. 111
Sacrificio	p. 114
Epimone	p. 115
Dulzura	p. 116
Cisma	p. 119
Et in secula seculorum	p. 120
Niveas cataratas de Niagara	p. 121
Poems and their sources	p. 127
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