Basket of braids = Cesto de trenzas /
The title of Basket of Braids forms a surprising image. Why would anyone store braided hair in a basket? 'The women in my family / keep the hair / they cut off / in a basket of braids. // It's an ancient tradition, / no one can remember / who started it.' For Belarusian poet Natalia L...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Spanish. |
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Swindon, UK :
Shearsman Books,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- I. La gente de mi pueblo / The people of my village
- Se agachan / Each woman bends
- Las tareas / Our tasks
- Los vestidos caen / Our dresses drag
- Algunos / Some villagers
- Un día no pude / One day I couldn't
- Mi bisabuelo / My great-grandfather
- Si no duermo / When I can't sleep
- Las mujeres de mi familia / The women in my family
- En la casa, los manteles / In the house, the tablecloths
- La abuela intenta / Grandmother tries
- Crece en mi jardín / Just one black rose
- El pueblo / The village
- Dos potrillos / Two foals
- Subo al tejado / I go up on the roof
- Cada día / Every day
- Mi padre tomaba té con su abuelo / My father drank tea with his grandfather
- II. Si me abofetean / If they slap me
- Los cerdos roen / The pigs gnaw
- Aunque no pueda escapar / Though I can't escape
- Ningún río será mío / No river will ever be mine
- Abrazada al animal / Holding tight to the animal
- Estoy sentada / I'm sitting
- El antídoto del veneno / The antidote to venom
- Soy la región / I am the region
- Trenzo una tiara / I braid a crown
- No piensan / The foals
- Cuando no hay nadie / When no one is around
- En la nariz del búfalo / In the buffalo's nose
- Algunas noches / Some nights
- Su risa / Her laughter
- Ir al encuentro / To meet up
- Soy el último hospedaje / I am the last lodging
- Una manada de osos / A sleuth of bears
- Acuchillan al chancho / They stab the pig
- Con la cabellera roja / With her red hair
- Danza / She dances
- Vuelve / She returns
- Los hongos / Toadstools grow
- Rezo / I pray,
- Como tumores / Like tumors
- Acknowledgments
- Biographical Notes.