Coral Bracho

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Coral Bracho (b. 1951, Mexico City) is a Mexican poet, translator, and doctor of Literature.

Bracho is winner of the Aguacalientes National Poetry Prize in 1981 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. She received the 2004 Xavier Villaurrutia Award for her book, Ese Espacio, Ese Jardin.

Her books of poetry include Tierra de entraña ardiente, a collaboration with the painter Irma Palacios.

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[edit] Works

[edit] Periodicals

Her poems have appeared in:

[edit] Collections

Bracho has had several books published collecting her works

  • Peces de piel fugaz (Fish of Fleeting Skin) (1977)[1]
    • Reissued as Huellas de Luz ("Tracks of Light") (1994, 2006)[2]
  • El ser que va a morir [The Being that is Going to Die] (1982)[2]
    • winner of El Premio Nacional de Poesia de Casa de la Cultura de Aguascalientes (Aguacalientes National Poetry Prize)[2]
  • Bajo el destello liguido (Beneath the Sparkling Liquid) (1988)[3]
  • Tierra de entraña ardiente (Earth's Smoldering Core) with the painter Irma Palacios (1992)[4]
  • La voluntad del ámbar (The Disposition of Amber) (1998)[5]
  • Of Their Eyes as Crystalline Sand, Duration Press (1999). Translated to English by poet Forrest Gander.[2]
  • Watersilks, Poetry Ireland (1999). Translated from English, French and Portuguese.[2]
  • Trait du Temps/Trazo del Tiempo (Brush Strokes of Time) (2001)[2]
  • Ese espacio, ese jardín (That Space, That Garden) (2003)[2]
  • ¿A donde fue el Ciempies? (Where was the Centipede?), Illustrations by Rafael Parajas (2007). Poetry for children.[2]
  • Cuarto de hotel (2007)[2]
  • Firefly Under the Tongue (New Directions, 2008)[2]

[edit] Anthologies

Bracho's poems are also included in several anthologies.

  • Líneas Conectadas: nueva poesía de los Estados Unidos (Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico), Sarabande Books (2006), eds. Luis Cortes Bargallo and Forrest Gander
  • Reversible Monuments: An Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Poetry, Copper Canyon Press (2002)
  • Medusario: Muestrade Poesia Latinoamericano/a, (A Sampling of Latin American Poetry), Fondo De Cultura Economico USA (1996), eds. Roberto Echaverren, Jose Kozer and Jacobo Safami
  • Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women, Milkweed Editions (1993)

[edit] References

[edit] General

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Poem at palabravirtual.com (in Spanish)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Biography at uspoetsinmexico.org
  3. ^ Article at poets.org
  4. ^ Article at poetrytranslation.org
  5. ^ Article at poetrytranslation.org

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