Does poetry have a metabolic dimension? 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.
Pura Lopez-Colome and Forrest Gander: Watchword
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Credits
Guests:
- Pura Lopez-Colome - poet and translator
- Forrest Gander - poet and translator