The black flower and other zapotec poems - natalia toledo

Natalia Toledos 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 Toledos poems of love and loss the worlds population turns into fish, death is a cricket, and naked women are made of wet magma.

The Black Flower won the Nezhualcóyotl Prize, Mexicos highest honor for indigenous-language literature, in 2004.

FINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD! LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD!.