The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems

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 Nezhualc yotl 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


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Phoneme Media
Published: 11/10/2015
ISBN: 9781939419460
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d