Xanath Caraza's first book-length collection Conjuro(Spellbound),
with introduction by Fred Arroyo, is published by Mammoth
Publications, a Native-owned literary press. In this tri-lingual
text, Caraza combines Spanish, English, and Nahuatl (language of
the Aztecs) to create a continuous spell of verse. Caraza's writing
derives from her awareness of Indigenous thought: words are
tangible objects, not abstractions, and capable of influencing
physical reality's web of interactions. The poet's connection to
her Indigenous and Mexican heritage energizes her meditations and
proclamations, which are set in Veracruz, Spain, Paris, Chicago,
and Kansas City, her present home. Caraza is a dynamic performance
poet as well as a skilled writer. This debut collection establishes
her as a major voice of 21st American letters. This book shows how
multiple cultures co-exist for United States immigrants. It is
appropriate for young adults, Latin American Studies, Indigenous
American Studies, and Midwest U.S. Studies. Xanath Caraza is a
traveler, educator, poet and short story writer. Originally from
Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, she is a Kansas City resident. She has an
M.A. in Romance Languages. She lectures in Foreign Languages and
Literatures at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her chapbook
Corazon Pintado: Ekphrastic Poems (2012) is from TL Press. She won
the 2003 Ediciones Nuevo Espacio international short story contest
in Spanish and was a 2008 finalist for the first international John
Barry Award. Caraza is an advisory circle member of the Con Tinta
literary organization and a former board member of the Latino
Writers Collective in Kansas City. Rigoberto Gonzalez writes of
Conjuro: "A decisively Amerindian song breathes through the pages
of Xanath Caraza's Conjuro, a charitable book of invocation,
incantation, lamentation and healing. Caraza's poems are the
antidote to our troubled times: they reach toward ancestral spirit
and woman-strength, they collect wisdom from the natural and
experiential landscapes, they reorient language away from duplicity
and back to the "oral traditions of the heart." A truly moving, and
spellbinding, debut."
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