Seven dreams by Feliciano Sánchez Chan and translated by Jonathan Harrington

This is poetry from Mexico.

Seven dreams by Feliciano Sánchez Chan translated by Jonathan Harrington is published by New Native Press. This is a Book originally written in Mayan. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781883197315E12.

Seven Dreams, by Feliciano Sánchez Chan and translated by Jonathan Harrington, is a Mayan poetry collection from Mexico that deserves attention simply for the linguistic pathway it opens. Translation from Mayan languages into English is far less common than translation from Spanish, and that makes this book important beyond its title. But the title is also beautiful: seven dreams suggests sequence, ritual, vision, and the old intimacy between poetry and dreaming. I would read this collection with care, resisting the temptation to turn Indigenous poetry into ethnographic material first. Start with the poem. Let the dream remain a dream before making it evidence of anything. Harrington’s translation offers English-language readers a chance to encounter a literary imagination rooted in a language-world too often pushed to the margins.

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.

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