Pura López Colomé was born in Mexico City. She has published eight volumes of poetry, selections of which have been translated by Forrest Gander and Alistair Reid, among others. She has also published translations of poets such as William Carlos Williams, Seamus Heaney, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Hass and many others.
Pura López Colomé
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)