Aquí Era El Paraíso = Here Was ParadiseAquí Era El Paraíso = Here Was Paradise
Selección De Poemas De Humberto Ak'abal = Selected Poems of Humberto Ak'abal
Spanish
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Book, 2021
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Current format, Book, 2021, , Available . Offered in 0 more formats"Aquí era el paraíso / Here Was Paradise is a selection of poems written by the great Maya poet Humberto Ak'abal. They evoke his childhood in and around the Maya K'iche' village of Momostenango, Guatemala, and also describe his own role as a poet of the place. Ak'abal writes about children, and grandfathers, and mothers, and animals, and ghosts, and thwarted love, and fields, and rains, and poetry, and poverty, and death. The poetry was written for adults but can also be read and loved by young people, especially in this collection, beautifully illustrated by award-winning Guatemalan-American illustrator Amelia Lau Carling. Ak'abal is famous worldwide as one of the great contemporary poets in the Spanish language, and one of the greatest Indigenous poets of the Americas. Ak'abal created his poems first in K'iche', then translated them into Spanish."--
"Aqu era el paraso / Here was paradise es una seleccion de poemas escritos por el gran poeta maya Humberto Ak'abal. Creados primero en k'ic, estos poemas evocan su infancia en y alrededor de la aldea maya k'ic de Momostenango, Guatemala. Ak'abal es reconocido mundiamente como uno de los grades poetas contemporaneous de la lengua hispana y uno de los ms grandes poetas indgenas de Amrica. Escribio sobre nos, abuelos, madres, animales, fantasmas, amores frustrados, sembrados, lluvias, poesa, pobreza y muerte. Aunque Ak'abal escribio para adultos, esta coleccion bilingue en espanol e ingles es tambien accesible para jovenes..."--Inside cover
"Aqu era el paraso / Here was paradise es una seleccion de poemas escritos por el gran poeta maya Humberto Ak'abal. Creados primero en k'ic, estos poemas evocan su infancia en y alrededor de la aldea maya k'ic de Momostenango, Guatemala. Ak'abal es reconocido mundiamente como uno de los grades poetas contemporaneous de la lengua hispana y uno de los ms grandes poetas indgenas de Amrica. Escribio sobre nos, abuelos, madres, animales, fantasmas, amores frustrados, sembrados, lluvias, poesa, pobreza y muerte. Aunque Ak'abal escribio para adultos, esta coleccion bilingue en espanol e ingles es tambien accesible para jovenes..."--Inside cover
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