The black flower and other Zapotec poems

by Natalia Toledo

Paper Book, 2015

Status

Available

Publication

Los Angeles, CA : Phoneme Media, 2015.

Description

Natalia Toledo'sThe Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems, with an award-winning translation by Clare Sullivan, describes contemporary Isthmus Zapotec life in lush, sensual detail. In Toledo's poems of love and loss the world's population turns into fish, death is a cricket, and naked women are made of wet magma.The Black Flower won the Nezhualcóyotl Prize, Mexico's highest honor for indigenous-language literature, in 2004. FINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD! LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD!

Language

ISBN

9781939419460

Local notes

poetry
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