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“A shocking book about a terrifying event, seen through the sharp and observant eyes of Mexican poet and activist Irma Pineda.”—María Baranda, Author of The New World Written ""Irma Pineda's poetry is urgent, at once fierce and full of compassion. It brings us face to face with our times, denouncing the violence that so often tears our communities apart, and envisioning alternative futures as only poetry can. And what a treat has Yale University Press prepared for multilingual readers worldwide. Long live translators, who, like Wendy Call, open paths for solidarity and awe.""—Cristina Rivera Garza, Pulitzer Prize winner “Irma Pineda’s incantatory collection speaks truth to power in a voice that is prophetic, haunting, hallucinatory, yet always brimming with humane compassion. Call’s translations are translucent and cutting as glass, offering these poems that already live in twinned bodies of Didxazá and Spanish, the clear-eyed vision of a third.”—Michael Bazzett, translator of If Today Were Tomorrow

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Irma Pineda is an Isthmus Zapotec poet, translator, educator, and Indigenous rights activist. She has two previous collections of poetry in Wendy Call’s English translation: In the Belly of Night and Other Poems and Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater. She lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. Wendy Call is a writer, editor, translator, and educator. She is the author of No Word for Welcome and coeditor of Telling True Stories and the annual Best Literary Translations. She lives in Seattle, WA, on Duwamish land.

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