"How the Bicycle Shone" includes selections from her books "Spitting the Pips Out" (1981)
Due out 2nd February 2017 from Cape
It is a book that acts out its own subjects – dualities
recounted in calypso-inspired rhythms
even though she escapes unscathed in Homer’s Odyssey and is restored to her husband’s side by the eidolon’s unique guarantee of her chastity
Speaking in Song by Pura López Colomé Mark Waldron "How the Bicycle Shone" includesPura Lpez Colom is one of Mexicos most acclaimed contemporary poets; she has published 11 volumes of poetry, most recently Lieder: Cantos al odo, cantos al olvido(Speaking in Song Hearing and Forgetting, 2012), and Poemas reunidos 1985 2012 (Collected Poems, 2013). In 2008, she was awarded Mexicos most prestigious poetry prize, the Premio Xavier Villarrutia. Previous work in English includes Aurora (Shearsman Books), translated by Jason Stumpf, and