Like a New Sun by Anthology and translated by David Shook, Eliot Weinberger, Víctor Terán, Various

This is poetry from Mexico.

Like a New Sun by Anthology translated by David Shook, Eliot Weinberger, Víctor Terán, Various is published by HewesHeiser. This is a Book originally written in Huastecan Nahuatl, Isthmus Zapotec, Mazatec, Tzotzil, Yucatec Maya, Zoque. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781939419262E12.

Like a New Sun is an anthology of Huastecan Nahuatl, Isthmus Zapotec, Mazatec, Tzotzil, Yucatec Maya, Zoque poetry, translated by David Shook, Eliot Weinberger, Víctor Terán, Various, published by HewesHeiser in 2015. It is an anthology of Indigenous Mexican poetry translated from multiple languages, including Nahuatl, Zapotec, Mazatec, Tzotzil, Maya, and Zoque. As an anthology, it changes the center of gravity, reminding readers that Mexican poetry is not one language or one inheritance but a constellation of living poetics. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Mexico; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.