For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
Tedi López Mills (Mexico City, 1959) has published nine books of poetry. She has won the Premio Nacional de Literatura Efraín Huerta, the Premio Juan Pablos al Mérito Editorial, CANIEM, and the Premio Nacional de Literatura José Fuentes Mares. In 2009 she won the Xavier Villaurutia Prize, Mexican literature’s highest honour, for her book Death on Rua Augusta. López Mills lives and writes in Mexico City.
‘To live,’ writes Walter Benjamin, ‘means to leave traces’. As one might expect, Benjamin’s observation is not without a certain melancholy. Traces are lost...
