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Poems (Pamphlet)
Victor Teran; Translated by David Shook
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R134
R111
Discovery Miles 1 110
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Like A New Sun features poetry from Huastecan Nahuatl, Isthmus
Zapotec, Mazatec, Tsotsil, Yucatec Maya, and Zoque languages.
Co-edited by Isthmus Zapotec poet Victor Teran and translator David
Shook, this groundbreaking anthology introduces six indigenous
Mexican poets--three women and three men--each writing in a
different language. Well-established names like Juan Gregorio
Regino (Mazatec) appear alongside exciting new voices like Mikeas
Sanchez (Zoque). Each poet's work is contextualized and introduced
by its translator. Foreword by Eliot Weinberger. Poets include
Victor Teran (Isthmus Zapotec), Mikeas Sanchez (Zoque), Juan
Gregorio Regino (Mazatec), Briceida Cuevas Cob (Yucatec Maya), Juan
Hernandez (Huastecan Nahuatl), and Enriqueta Lunez (Tsotsil).
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Beauty Salon (Paperback)
Mario Bellatin; Translated by David Shook
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R395
R331
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Mario Bellatin’s complex dreamscape, offered here in a brand-new
translation, presents a timely allegorical portrait of the body and
society in decay, victim to inscrutable pandemic. In a large,
unnamed city, a strange, highly infectious disease begins to
spread, afflicting its victims with an excruciating descent toward
death, particularly unsparing in its assault of those on society's
margins. Spurned by their loved ones and denied treatment by
hospitals, the sick are left to die on the streets until a beauty
salon owner, whose previous caretaking experience extended only to
the exotic fish tanks scattered among his workstations, opens his
doors as a refuge. In the ramshackle Morgue, victim to persecution
and violence, he accompanies his male guests as they suffer through
the lifeless anticipation of certain death, eventually leaving the
wistful narrator in complete, ill-fated isolation.
A collection of poetry from acclaimed yet underrepresented Kurdish
poet Farhad Pirbal. Like his contemporary Abdulla Pashew, this
poetry is a chronicle of exile and displacement, longing and not
belonging. Poetry is in turns wistful and disoriented, reflecting
his role as dissident and persecuted prisoner."Poéte maudit" of
Kurdistan, Pirbal is known as well for his highly publicized antics
as for his prolific literary output. Pirbal, born in 1961, "may be
the greatest innovator of Kurdish literature in the twentieth
century, in both poetry and prose" (Shook, Poetry Foundation).
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Aeroplane (Paperback)
Kyn Taniya; Translated by Anthony Seidman, David Shook
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R383
R323
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