Whereas Indigenous communities throughout the Americas have been historically defined by place, Q’eqchi’ speakers “have the largest geographical extension of all Maya groups” (Kahn). As such, Q’eqchi’ authors like Aj Xol have a unique perspective on what it means to be rooted to a place, to migrate, and to live in community. His poems deal with the...
In StockIrene G. closes some of her wounds with this new collection of poems, without ceasing to be a ‘broken woman who swims in her own warm blood’, facing the mourning of abandonment, of loss, of the descent into the depths of solitude, with the thirst of a woman who longs to ‘kill fear’, and a ‘new life made of bits of life’. With the experience of a skilled...
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