Post by vemurph35 on May 20, 2012 21:04:07 GMT -5
It's an honor to introduce Pura Lopez- Colome tonight; the inspirational Mexican poet who has inspired her audiences in the Southern Hemisphere to overcome life¡ts turbulent misfortunes and seek a world with the promise of renewal of life with her, "pure, yet sensitive, knowledgeable and profound" literature and poetry. Pura Lopez- Colome's poetry is described by her poetic colleague Forrest Gander, the North American poet whom she has worked with on various poetic translations, as "dark, but with a molten trickle of transformative possibility running through their darkness." Her poetry as well as her own life story is living proof that hard work and hope can shine through any darkness that attempts to devour one's dreams. She serves as an inspiration to find our own original relationship in the world within the promise of every new day's morning dawn.
Pura Lopez- Colome has had darkness consume her own life, and these misfortunes have strengthened her as a person and as a writer to appreciate life's greatest gifts of love, hope, health and dreams. As a child, she had to deal with growing up in the 1950's and 1960's with her unstable, divorced parents. This forced her to live split herself between her mother's home in Mexico City, Mexico and her father's in Yuctan, Mexico. She then overcame the tragedy of losing her mother as a young teen and being sent to Yankton, South Dakota in the United States to finish high school in another country.
Suppressing her feelings of abandonment, she was able to express herself through literature and continued to study Latin American and Spanish literature at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City. She fell in love with being able to share her emotions with the world. In her own opinion, she especially fell in love with poetry for its ability to, "construct parallel worlds." She believes that poetry "makes us stretch as if we were made of rubber, toward the people it is possible for us to be, toward our possible realities, starting from the matter that forms us, dark and light." Pura feels that poetry gives her the same feeling of renewal of spirit with every line she writes as does every dawn awaken each new day.
Pura Lopez- Colome became a the well respected poet here before us today after she won the Alfonso Reyes Mexican literature prize for her essay "Diaglogo socratico en Alfonso Reyes" meaning "Socratic Dialogue with Alfonso Reyes¡" in 1977. As well as appearing in several Mexican journals and newspapers such as, "Mexos", "Pauta", "Vuelta", "Vicevesra", "Letras Libres", "La Jornada", "Reforma" and "Novedades." Pura went on to write numerous poetry novels of her own, like "Death of a Kiss", "El Sueno del Cazador", "Aurora", "Intemperie", and "Watchwood." Thanks to her multicultural background, Pura has also found literary success in translating hundreds of poems to and from English, Spanish, French and German.
Pura uses poetry to create a world full of hope when her world seems to be collapsing, so that she can as she has stated, "live there, in a world of eternal possibility and perpetual promise that are equally tangible (as dreams are)." All of her poems, books and essays try to create this small glimmer of escape for her readers, so that they too can find their own light within the darkness of life.
Thank you to Pura Lopez- Colome for sharing her world with us this evening, and let us all welcome here tonight.
Pura Lopez- Colome has had darkness consume her own life, and these misfortunes have strengthened her as a person and as a writer to appreciate life's greatest gifts of love, hope, health and dreams. As a child, she had to deal with growing up in the 1950's and 1960's with her unstable, divorced parents. This forced her to live split herself between her mother's home in Mexico City, Mexico and her father's in Yuctan, Mexico. She then overcame the tragedy of losing her mother as a young teen and being sent to Yankton, South Dakota in the United States to finish high school in another country.
Suppressing her feelings of abandonment, she was able to express herself through literature and continued to study Latin American and Spanish literature at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City. She fell in love with being able to share her emotions with the world. In her own opinion, she especially fell in love with poetry for its ability to, "construct parallel worlds." She believes that poetry "makes us stretch as if we were made of rubber, toward the people it is possible for us to be, toward our possible realities, starting from the matter that forms us, dark and light." Pura feels that poetry gives her the same feeling of renewal of spirit with every line she writes as does every dawn awaken each new day.
Pura Lopez- Colome became a the well respected poet here before us today after she won the Alfonso Reyes Mexican literature prize for her essay "Diaglogo socratico en Alfonso Reyes" meaning "Socratic Dialogue with Alfonso Reyes¡" in 1977. As well as appearing in several Mexican journals and newspapers such as, "Mexos", "Pauta", "Vuelta", "Vicevesra", "Letras Libres", "La Jornada", "Reforma" and "Novedades." Pura went on to write numerous poetry novels of her own, like "Death of a Kiss", "El Sueno del Cazador", "Aurora", "Intemperie", and "Watchwood." Thanks to her multicultural background, Pura has also found literary success in translating hundreds of poems to and from English, Spanish, French and German.
Pura uses poetry to create a world full of hope when her world seems to be collapsing, so that she can as she has stated, "live there, in a world of eternal possibility and perpetual promise that are equally tangible (as dreams are)." All of her poems, books and essays try to create this small glimmer of escape for her readers, so that they too can find their own light within the darkness of life.
Thank you to Pura Lopez- Colome for sharing her world with us this evening, and let us all welcome here tonight.