Nightmare Running on a Meadow of Absolute Light

by María Baranda, Paul Hoover (Translator)

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated by Paul Hoover. María Baranda is one of the leading Mexican poets of the generation born in the 1960s. Her work has received Mexico's distinguished Efraín Huerta and Aguascalientes national poetry prizes, as well as Spain's Francisco de Quevedo Prize for Ibero-American Poetry. She is increasingly known for her sweeping and incisive long poems and book- length projects, and this volume contains two such 'To Tell' and the title poem.

94 pages, Paperback

Published May 15, 2017

About the author

María Baranda es una poetisa, narradora y traductora. Ganó el Premio Nacional de Poesía Efraín Huerta 1995 por su obra Los memoriosos. Fue embajadora de Embajadora de la Literatura Infantil y Juvenil de la FILIJ 2017.

Reviews

[Cody Stetzel · Rating 4 out of 5]

What an invigorating long form. I enjoyed the sound of this work throughout, and thought the project of expansion was worthwhile. I want to put it into conversation with anyone who risks the message more concisely.