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From Lightning’s Strike – Juana Karen Peñate – Translated from the Ch’ol Language by Carol Rose Little and Charlotte Friedman
SPECIAL ADVANCE ORDER PRICE $18.36 + S&H - From Lightning’s Strike is a collection of lyric poems rooted in ancestral Ch’ol Mayan culture and animated by vivid images of the natural world. Written by Juana Karen Peñate, winner of the 2020 Indigenous Literatures of the Americas Award, and translated from the Mayan Ch’ol…
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How Many Hands to Home – Lisken Van Pelt Dus
"How Many Hands to Home" is a journey of compassion, traveling through fire, war and displacement to arrive at a place of acceptance and embrace of the expansive human spirit. The many voices of the poems engage with both individual and shared experience, exploring the two sides—the challenges and the sweetness—of forging home in our communities and on our planet. Though the poems engage head-on with the various ways in which humanity fails its promise, their movement is towards love—not blind or saccharine, but knowing and inclusive.…
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