NDQ Books: Maya Poetry and the Great War
Quarterly. It’s a great way to support the journal during this challenging year. Two years ago, we made our second foray into publishing with Snichimal Vayuchil or Flowery Dream. This is a short volume poetry translated by our poetry editor, Paul Worley, from Spanish or Tsotsil Maya. It was produced by an experimental poetry workshop in bats’i k’op, or Tsotsil Maya, where writers create poetry in their own mother language and Spanish, sharing their work as a form of what they call relational poetry. The workshop is also a place where these young writers reflect upon the origin...
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