It Must Be a Misunderstanding by Coral Bracho trans. By Forrest Gander #Crisis Useful Verses

Useful Verses

she shows us the delight and beauty in knowing

while she was Poet Laureate

Marvin Thompson

A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

It Must Be a Misunderstanding by Coral Bracho trans. By Forrest Gander #Crisis Useful VersesMexican poet, teacher and translator Coral Bracho was born in Mexico City in 1951. She has published several books, two in English thanks to the brilliant poet translator Forrest Gander, who has put this composite volume together, the first time Bracho has been extensively published in the UK. In Mexico she is a formidable presence and influence, one of the most significant writers since Octavio Paz. Her wide lined, semantically rich poems may remind