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!
The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems
$7.39
This book of poetry provides students with insight into Zapotec culture and serves as a literary studies resource.
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| Weight | 0.295 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 1.8 × 13.2 in |
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