Book record
Ocelocíhuatl
Xánath Caraza
Translated from Spanish by Sandra Kingery
Xánath Caraza’s Ocelocíhuatl, translated by Sandra Kingery, is a book whose title alone carries a charged animal and feminine presence. The work belongs to a contemporary Mexican poetry lineage where language, Indigenous memory, migration, and embodied perception often meet without needing to announce themselves as thesis. I would read this less as a book asking to be solved and more as one asking to be listened to for pattern: breath, creature, landscape, woman, history. Kingery’s translation gives English-language readers access to a poetic field where identity is not flattened into category. Instead, the poems seem to move through image and inheritance as living materials. The result feels like a collection of pressure, vigilance, and transformation.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Mouthfeel Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9780996724722