Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater
Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater is a trilingual collection by one of the most prominent Indigenous poets in Latin America, Irma Pineda, set in the poet’s hometown of Juchitán, Oaxaca. The collection surveys the echoes of a universal journey across space, time, and language.
About the Artists
Irma Pineda is the author of twelve books of bilingual Didxazá/Spanish poetry. From 2020 through 2022 she served as Vice President of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Wendy Call translated Irma Pineda’s In the Belly of Night and Other Poems and wrote the award-winning nonfiction book No Word for Welcome.
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