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AQUÍ ERA EL PARAÍSO/HERE WAS PARADISE
Selección de poemas de Humberto Ak'abal / Selected Poems of Humberto Ak'abal
*A Junior Library Guild pick!
*School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
An illustrated selection of poems by the Guatemalan poet Humberto Ak'abal of Mayan descent. These beautiful poems were first composed in K'iche', and then translated by him into Spanish. They describe and celebrate his world and the life of his people in the small mountain village. This poetry is for readers aged 9+ .
With colour illustrations by Amelia Lau Carling.
Selection by Patricia Aldana
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 writes about children, and grandfathers, and mothers, and animals, and ghosts, and thwarted love, and fields, and rains, and poetry, and poverty, and death.
*School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
An illustrated selection of poems by the Guatemalan poet Humberto Ak'abal of Mayan descent. These beautiful poems were first composed in K'iche', and then translated by him into Spanish. They describe and celebrate his world and the life of his people in the small mountain village. This poetry is for readers aged 9+ .
With colour illustrations by Amelia Lau Carling.
Selection by Patricia Aldana
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 writes about children, and grandfathers, and mothers, and animals, and ghosts, and thwarted love, and fields, and rains, and poetry, and poverty, and death.
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Published 2021-08-01 by Groundwood Books |