"A masterful bilingual collection of poems rooted in K'iche' Maya culture illustrating all the ways meaning manifests within our world, and how best to behold it"--
"A masterful bilingual collection of poems rooted in K'iche' Maya culture illustrating all the ways meaning manifests within our world, and how best to behold it"--
Humberto Ak’abal (1952–2019) was a K’iche’ Maya poet from Guatemala. His book Guardián de la caída de agua (Guardian of the Waterfall) was named book of the year by Association of Guatemalan Journalists and received their Golden Quetzal award in 1993. In 2004, he declined to receive the Guatemala National Prize in Literature because it is named for Miguel Ángel Asturias, whom Ak’abal accused of encouraging racism. Ak’abal, a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, passed away on January 28, 2019. Michael Bazzett is the author of The Echo Chamber, as well as five other collections of poems, including The Interrogation and You Must Remember This, winner of the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry. He is also the translator of The Popol Vuh, which was long-listed for the National Translation Award and named one of the best books of poetry in 2018 by the New York Times. Bazzett is a poet, teacher, and 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Guernica, Virginia Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, The Rumpus, and Best New Poets. He lives in Minneapolis.
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Introduction Kamik/Hoy/Today I. Dawn Daybreak The River The Azacuanes Ch’ik Hunched Broken Wing On the Floor The Song Song of the Water If They Could Speak The Poncho Time Wingless Bird Sheep The Mutt Singer The Rabbit My Sister Cenzontle My Wings At the Spring Bookworm The Butterfly The Naked Tree Leaves Peach Tree II. Apprentice A Plank Blue Nothing The Armchair What Is, Is That Tree Stars Night Tired Shadow Watcher Prayer Soot Water and Fire To Begin With Caretaker Woodcutter To Each Its Shadow Sweetly Leaves Even So The Bridge Flowers Happy Stones Trees The Rain They Know Two Eyes Clear Water There Lightning Overheard in the Market The Fire Crazy Old Cypress A Leap Grandfather Awakening ToFly Landslide Memory I Speak The Day I Grew Old Beyond Help III. K’uxk’ub’el My Shadow The Craftsman It’s Been a While The Moon on the Water She Fig Leaf Meeting Wish Forgotten Howl Dusk Rupture I Took Your Name Out of My Head The Sad One IV. And Nobody Sees Us The Dance Freedom Flight Downpour Distance The Sun Before Wild Jaguar I Would Like Corn Prayer I Don’t Know ... V. The Old Song of the Blood Shadows Birth Walking Backwards If Birds The Woodcutter Broken Heart Tremor of Fire Voices Hands That Day A Person Loneliness The Spring Pig Paradise A Book Nameless Tender, Withered Those Who Wait Dreamer Crickets The Blowhard Old Anacleto And, What’s More Lonely Tree The Color of Mist Old Feet If Today Were Tomorrow One Day Deer The Statue In the Dark Acknowledgments
Introduction Kamik/Hoy/Today I. Dawn Daybreak The River The Azacuanes Ch’ik Hunched Broken Wing On the Floor The Song Song of the Water If They Could Speak The Poncho Time Wingless Bird Sheep The Mutt Singer The Rabbit My Sister Cenzontle My Wings At the Spring Bookworm The Butterfly The Naked Tree Leaves Peach Tree II. Apprentice A Plank Blue Nothing The Armchair What Is, Is That Tree Stars Night Tired Shadow Watcher Prayer Soot Water and Fire To Begin With Caretaker Woodcutter To Each Its Shadow Sweetly Leaves Even So The Bridge Flowers Happy Stones Trees The Rain They Know Two Eyes Clear Water There Lightning Overheard in the Market The Fire Crazy Old Cypress A Leap Grandfather Awakening ToFly Landslide Memory I Speak The Day I Grew Old Beyond Help III. K’uxk’ub’el My Shadow The Craftsman It’s Been a While The Moon on the Water She Fig Leaf Meeting Wish Forgotten Howl Dusk Rupture I Took Your Name Out of My Head The Sad One IV. And Nobody Sees Us The Dance Freedom Flight Downpour Distance The Sun Before Wild Jaguar I Would Like Corn Prayer I Don’t Know ... V. The Old Song of the Blood Shadows Birth Walking Backwards If Birds The Woodcutter Broken Heart Tremor of Fire Voices Hands That Day A Person Loneliness The Spring Pig Paradise A Book Nameless Tender, Withered Those Who Wait Dreamer Crickets The Blowhard Old Anacleto And, What’s More Lonely Tree The Color of Mist Old Feet If Today Were Tomorrow One Day Deer The Statue In the Dark Acknowledgments
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