Red Seed: Poems for Luno by Cruz Alejandra Lucas Juarez and translated by Wendy Call, Whitney DeVos

This is poetry from Mexico.

Red Seed: Poems for Luno by Cruz Alejandra Lucas Juarez translated by Wendy Call, Whitney DeVos is published by Cardboard House Press. This is a Book originally written in Tutunaku. This was published in 2026.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781945720413E12.

Red Seed: Poems for Luno, by Cruz Alejandra Lucas Juarez, is a Tutunaku poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Wendy Call, Whitney DeVos, published by Cardboard House Press in 2026. It is a Tutunaku collection from Mexico where Indigenous language, address, seed, and future life are held together. Lucas Juarez’s poems feel important because they make translation a form of carrying forward, not only from one language to another but from one generation toward another. 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.