The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems
Natalia Toledo author Clare Sullivan translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Phoneme
Published:26th Nov '15
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Natalia Toledo's The 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 Nezhualcoyotl 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!
ISBN: 9781939419460
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 283g
172 pages
Bilingual edition