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Aquí era el paraíso : selección de poemas de Humberto Ak'abal

Aquí era el paraíso : selección de poemas de Humberto Ak'abal

Book 2021

"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...

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