In the Belly of Night and Other Poems
In the Belly of Night and Other Poems
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Irma Pineda / Translated by Wendy Call / Illustrations by Natalia Gurovich
“Irma Pineda’s poems and Wendy Call’s translations evoke tragedy, and celebrate the ways in which the human is built from dream, tradition, and nature. Self-translated as “mirror-poems” by Pineda, from Isthmus Zapotec into Spanish, and then translated into English through a complex process that is fascinatingly articulated by Call, the trilingual poems in this collection show us how translation serves as a means for cultural preservation and political resistance to the forces that seek to criminalize languages or dangerously render them extinct. In these poems, rivers have disappeared into deserts, the dead are honored and celebrated, language transforms pain into meaning, memory, and light.”
—Daniel Borzutzky, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry (USA)
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ISBN: 978-0-9997549-6-2
160 pages
Publication date: 2022