Carapace dancer : Spanish and Didxazá (Isthmus Zapotec) poems /
In Carapace Dancer, Natalia Toledo revisits some themes from her award-winning collection The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems (tr. Clare Sullivan, Phoneme, 2015). Toledo returns to the landscape of her childhood where animals predict the future and grandmothers shape masa. Again, she questions...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Spanish Zapotec |
| Language Notes: | In English, Spanish and Didxazá (Isthmus Zapotec). |
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Dallas :
Phoneme Media ; Deep Vellum,
[2025].
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| Edition: | First English edition. |
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| Summary: | In Carapace Dancer, Natalia Toledo revisits some themes from her award-winning collection The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems (tr. Clare Sullivan, Phoneme, 2015). Toledo returns to the landscape of her childhood where animals predict the future and grandmothers shape masa. Again, she questions Zapotec traditions even as she mourns their disappearance. But in these poems Toledo takes more risks: she exposes her pain and that of her people in images at once elegant and raw. Like the crab, she edges into the past, but the hard shell of experience or cynicism provides only temporary protection to the human vulnerability beneath it. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published as Deche bitoope / El dorso del cangrejo by Almadia Ediciones (Oaxaca, Mexico, 2016)"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 149 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781646053551 1646053559 |