Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed

The new winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, granted by the National Poetry Series, is the author’s impressionistic homage to his hometown of Colima, Mexico.

Translated by Sean Manning.

"In this remarkable bilingual debut...Pérez-Cortés cracks open the name of his hometown, Colima, to generate a vast mythology...The side-by-side presentation of the original Spanish and its English translation adds an...