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    Pura Lopez-Colome and Forrest Gander: Watchword

    Pura Lopez-Colomé's poetry, translated by Forrest Gander, envisions the body as a mystically rich reservoir of experience and language.

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    By Michael Silverblatt • May 23, 2013 • 28m Listen

    Pura Lopez-Colomé's

    Watchword (Wesleyan), translated from Spanish to English by

    Forrest Gander, envisions the body as a mystically rich reservoir of experience and language. She and Gander read poems from this bilingual edition while reflecting on poetry and translation, intuition and abstraction, and metaphor and illness.

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      Pura Lopez-Colome and Forrest Gander: Watchword

      Pura Lopez-Colomé's poetry, translated by Forrest Gander, envisions the body as a mystically rich reservoir of experience and language.

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      Pura Lopez-Colome and Forrest Gander: Watchword

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