Mikeas Snchez

Broschiertes Buch

How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems

Beschreibung

"In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sâanchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico"--

Autor

Mikeas Sánchez is the author of How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems. She is one of the most important poets of the Indigenous Americas, working in Zoque, a language spoken in southern Mexico. She is the only woman to have ever published a book of poetry in that language. Her six volumes of poetry-including Mokaya / Mojk'Jäyä and Mumure' tä' yäjktambä / Todos somos cimarrones-are all bilingual Spanish-Zoque. Sánchez's work has been translated into Bangla, Catalan, English, German, Italian, Maya, Mixe, and Portuguese. In Chiapas, Mexico, she was awarded first place in the "Y el Bolóm dice . . ." Prize for Fiction as well as the Pat O'tan Prize for Indigenous Poetry. Sánchez is a radio producer, translator, community health promoter, and defender of Zoque lands. She lives in Ajway, Chiapas.

Produktdetails

• Seedbank
• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9781639550203
• ISBN-10: 1639550208
• Artikelnr.: 67195749