The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems
By Clare Sullivan and Natalia Toledo
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 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!
Product Details
- Paperback
- 172 pages
- ISBN
- 9781939419460
- Publisher
- Phoneme Media (11/10/15)
- Dimensions
- 5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
- Tags
Tags
ben 'zaa / zapotec, latin america, mexico