Coral Bracho’s poems were translated for the PTC’s 2005 World Poets’ Tour by Tom Boll and the poet Katherine Pierpoint. Bracho’s early poems marry verbal luxuriance with a keen intelligence and awareness of artistic process. Yet that artistic consciousness doesn’t lose sight of the world. When she visited London in 2005 she described the way that her tour-de-force ‘Agua de bordes lúbricos’ [Water of Jellyfish] operates: ‘It tries to get close to the movement of water’ with images that are ‘fleeting’; ‘you can’t grasp them, they are very fluid. What remains is that continuity of water. Her works is considered to be part of contemporary neo-baroque literary movement from Latin America.
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