Description: This special edition of Snake Poems offers Nahuatl, Spanish, and English renditions of 104 poems based on Nahuatl invocations and spells that have survived more than three centuries, with a modern ecopoetic response from the late Francisco X. Alarcón.
Review Quotes: "Alarcon's translations deftly capture the flavor of Aztec incantations."-Gary Nabhan, New York Academy of Sciences
"With his poetry, his activism, and his living/loving, Francisco X. Alarcón taught us that borders are fallacies, violences upon the body politic, the earth, and the human spirit. Even now, Francisco's words and his legacy build the just and moral pathway we can travel toward one another."--Sarah Browning, Founding Executive Director of Split This Rock "Yes: the slender, chiseled lines. Yes: the iconic minimalism. But this trilingual tome unfurls what Galván Rodríguez aptly calls his 'spirit book.' It startles me still--this ancestral theology. Best embodied when he sings: 'my people's / past is / my staff // my pounding / heart / the only drum.'"--Francisco Aragón, author of His Tongue a Swath of Sky