Even Time Bleeds
Selected Poems
Jeannette L Clariond author Forrest Gander translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Published:13th Jan '26
Should be back in stock very soon
A vibrant and compelling bilingual edition of poems by the acclaimed Mexican writer Jeanette Clariond, translated by Pulitzer Prize–winner Forrest Gander
Even Time Bleeds is a revelatory selection of the work of Jeannette Clariond, a major contemporary Mexican poet known for her sensuous lyricism and philosophical gravity. Translated and introduced by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Forrest Gander, this volume gathers poems from across Clariond’s career and presents the English translations and the original Spanish texts on facing pages. Whether writing about science or Romanticism, childhood or the Chihuahua Desert, ancient Mexican myths or the pandemic of Mexican femicides, Clariond displays a complex self-consciousness that captures much about contemporary identity in Mexico and beyond. Born in 1949 into a Lebanese family that emigrated to Mexico, Clariond has spent much of her life traveling between Mexico, the United States, and Spain, and she writes about varieties of exile and the fearsome complexity of the US–Mexican border with rare insight. Even rarer: she gives voice to her own interiority in a way that is accessible and piercing, as though her true country is inside of each reader.
"To read Jeannette L. Clariond’s Even Time Bleeds—a bilingual selection from across the Lebanese Mexican writer’s career, pairing Spanish originals with Forrest Gander’s lucid translations—is to meet a poet who has perfected poems at every scale. . . . [T]he primary impression left by Even Time Bleeds is one of supersaturated surplus, of a poet who can reinvigorate genres as timeworn as the landscape poem, the creation myth, the family elegy."---Christopher Spaide, Literary Hub
"Even Time Bleeds, a new anthology of award winning Mexican Poet Jeannette Lozano Clariond’s poetry translated by American poet Forrest Gander, compresses and chops over two decades of highly structured poetics into a choreographed 140 pages. Between the gnostic aphorisms of Ammonites are increasingly contemporary works whose own Gnosticism invokes Wallace Stevens and Octavio Paz."---Justin D. Goodman, Compulsive Reader
"Clariond is a poet of immense vision, whose poems startle the mind as much as they do the body. . . . The poems in English are heady and moving, printed alongside the Spanish, which allows you to cross borders in record time. In a day and age where the world feels ever-closer to ending, we need more writers and translators like Jeannette L. Clariond and Forrest Gander to remind us that the way we choose to view the world makes all the difference."---Matt Schroeder, Blackbird
"Beautiful, thoughtful, well-translated, and relevant."---Tom Bowden, The Book Beat
"[Jeannette L. Clariond] is a poet who transcribes secrets of stones and decodes memos of silence with surrealist mastery, all while commanding in a singular voice that pursues meaning like a heat-seeking missile. . . . Clariond’s lexicon is attuned to the timeless—the trees, the sky, a long silence that begins to hum. Born of intense pathos and passion, her insights offer a liberating recognition of fugitive clarity."---Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Rain Taxi Review of Books
ISBN: 9780691280462
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168 pages