The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems

By Natalia Toledo

Natalia Toledo's The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems, with an award-winning translation by Clare Sullivan, describes contemporary Isthmus Zapotec life in lush, sensual detail. In Toledo's poems of love and loss the world's population turns into fish, death is a cricket, and naked women are made of wet magma. The Black Flower won the Nezhualc yotl Prize, Mexico's highest honor for indigenous-language literature, in 2004.

FINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939419468
• ISBN13: 9781939419460
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Phoneme Media
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 5.2"