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Links to Pura López-Colomé

Friday, January 29th, 2021

I noticed earlier today on Twitter that Ron Silliman posted a link to an article in the Los Angeles Review of Books on the poetry of Jose Emilio Pacheco with the one word comment, “Seriously.”

https://poets.org/poet/jose-emilio-pacheco

Just to balance the gender scales, though, I would like to cite once again the work of Pura López-Colomé, with whom I had the extraordinary honor of being on a panel with on one of my trips to Mexico during the past decade to read my poetry.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/pura-lopez-colome

http://www.universeofpoetry.org/mexico_p2.shtml

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/52403/echo-56d230d878bad

For those who are curious about poetry in Mexico, I recommend you start with an anthology from Shearsman Books: “Mexican Poetry Today: 20/20 Voices (a bilingual anthology), edited by Brandel France de Bravo.