Book record
The Destruction of the Jaguar
Ancient Mayan
Translated from Mayan by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno
The Destruction of the Jaguar, translated from Mayan by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno and published by City Lights, is selected volume of ancient Mayan material connected to Mexico. The Destruction of the Jaguar, attributed here to Ancient Mayan material and translated by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, should be approached as a selected encounter with Indigenous mythic and poetic imagination rather than a conventional single-author book. The title is fierce and ceremonial: animal power, loss, ritual, and cosmic violence all gathered into one image. I would read it with humility, remembering that translation here is also cultural mediation, and that the poem carries a world older than the categories we bring to it.
- Publisher
- City Lights
- Language
- Mayan
- Country
- Mexico