Mikeas Snchez

How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems

Übersetzer: Call, Wendy; Shook

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sâanchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico"--

Produktdetails

• Seedbank
• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9781639550203
• ISBN-10: 1639550208
• Artikelnr.: 67195749

Autorenporträt

Mikeas Sánchez is the author of How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems. She is one of the most important poets of the Indigenous Americas, working in Zoque, a language spoken in southern Mexico. She is the only woman to have ever published a book of poetry in that language. Her six volumes of poetry-including Mokaya / Mojk'Jäyä and Mumure' tä' yäjktambä / Todos somos cimarrones-are all bilingual Spanish-Zoque. Sánchez's work has been translated into Bangla, Catalan, English, German, Italian, Maya, Mixe, and Portuguese. In Chiapas, Mexico, she was awarded first place in the "Y el Bolóm dice . . ." Prize for Fiction as well as the Pat O'tan Prize for Indigenous Poetry. Sánchez is a radio producer, translator, community health promoter, and defender of Zoque lands. She lives in Ajway, Chiapas.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Jake Skeets
Note on the Translations
Ore’yomo
Ore’yomo
Ore’yomo
Wejpäj’ki’uy
Nombrar las cosas
To Name Things
Mojk’jäyä
Mokaya
Mokaya
Tumjama maka mujsi’
Y sabrás un día
And One Day You Will Know
 
Te’ kojama wi’rupa jurä nitiyä ji’ nhtä manemä’
El alma retorna al grito del silencio
The Soul Returns to Silence’s Cry
 
Aisha’
Aisha
Aisha
 
Rama
Rama
Rama
 
Mumure’ nhtä’ yäjktampä
Todos somos cimarrones
We’re All Maroons
 
Nereyda’is myapasyi’äyu nhwyt New’York
Nereyda se soñó en New York
Nereyda Dreamed in New York
 
[¡Jä! te’ kakuy myojna’pyapä’is mij’ nhkojso]
[¡Ay! de la muerte que te cubre los pies]
[Ay! From the death that covers your feet]
 
[Maka’ mini’ te’ kakuy / tese’ maka ‘mpyi’are’ mij’ änhkuy’omo]
[Llegará la muerte / y te encontrará en tu cama]
[Death will arrive / and find you in your bed]
 
[Maka mini te’ kaku’y / te’ wiyunh’sepä]
[Llegará la muerte / la verdadera]
[Death will arrive / the true one]
 
[Wäkä nhtä’ jampä’ä te’ toya’]
[Que para olvidar el dolor]
[May just one prayer]
 
[Äkyaj’papä temäjk kätpamä te’ jama teserike te’ tzu’]
[Los que duermen más allá del día y la noche]
[Those who sleep beyond day and night]
 
[Mujspatzi nyitzäjk’pak teserike yajpak’ te’ jama]
[En el inicio y la culminación del día sé]
[At beginning and end of each day I know]
 
 [Tumä jama tumä pänis]
[Un día un hombre]
[One day a man]
 
Jesukristo’is ja’ nyiäjk’tyiäjya äj’ tzumama’is Kyonukskuy
Jesucristo no entendió jamás los ruegos de mi abuela
Jesus Never Understood My Grandmother’s Prayers
 
Wanhjampatzi yom’nhkomi nyiäyi’päis Soledad
Mi Virgen se llama soledad
My Virgin’s Named for Solitude
 
Nhtä’ nhtzamä ore’ sasyapyä tire’
Ser zoque es un privilegio
To Be Zoque Is a Privilege
 
Päjkinh’tzyoki’uy’ mokaya’pätkoroya
Recibimiento del hombre mokaya
Reception for a Mokaya Man
 
Päjkinh’tzyi’okyuy mokaya’yomo’koroya
Recibimiento de la mujer mokaya
Reception for a Mokaya Woman
 
Aj’ jara’is tzi’upä’
Mi padre me dio un regalo
My Father Gave Me a Gift
 
We’we’
Wewe
Wewe
 
 Tzoko’tzyame
Pensar con el corazón
Thinking with Our Hearts
 
Wäkä’ jana tyi’ujanämä’ nijp’pyajpak
Para que no llueva el día de tu entierro
So It Won’t Rain on Your Burial Day
 
Wenhti’
Ofrenda
Gift
 
Tumä une’ mapasyiäpya
Un niño sueña
A Child Dreams
 
Jujtzyi’e nhtä wäpä tzamapänh’ajä
Cómo ser un buen salvaje
How to Be a Good Savage
 
Te’ meke
El festín
Feast
 
Mapasyiäpyatzi yäjkpä’wakas
Soñando con un toro negro
Dreaming of a Black Bull
 
Pistinh
Ceiba
Ceiba
 
Mäja kupkuy’omo Saspalankis’yuneram jätyi’ampatzi
Los hijos de Saspalanki lloramos en la gran ciudad
Saspalanki’s Children Cry in the Big City
 
Sonerampäte
Somos Millones
We Are Millions
 
Nä’pyajpa, Mokayaram maka’ yajpä’ya’e
Dicen que los Mokayas nos extinguiremos
They Say the Mokayas Will Go Extinct
 
Jujtzyi’ere’
¿Cuánto vale?
What Is It Worth?
 
Tä’ mokaya’ramte
Somos mokayas
We Are Mokayas
 
Mokaya, kämanä’
Escucha, mokaya
Listen, Mokaya
 
Maka’ tä’ wyrurame nhtä’ ‘tunh’omo
Volveremos al camino
Returning to the Path
 
Notes on the Poems
Acknowledgments