Of Their Ornate Eyes of Crystalline Sand by Coral Bracho (1999)

 Of Their Ornate Eyes of Crystalline Sand

Coral Bracho

Translated from the Spanish of Forrest Gander

Duration 11

(c) 1999

Part of the series. Great poetry. 

I happened across the series and these chapbooks, I believe, by someone in Iowa unloading a store of chapbooks they had accumulated over the years before they retired from their position at the literary hub there. 

One of the fascinating things about this series is that the translator had the opportunity to talk about the author they were translating, giving personal histories and perceptions to readers who were as likely as not NOT familiar with the poet whose work was the focus of the chapbook itself.