Irma Pineda
Irma Pineda (Binnizá/Isthmus Zapotec) has published nine books of bilingual (Spanish-Isthmus Zapotec) poetry. Naxiña’ Rului’ladxe’ – Rojo Deseo (Red Desire, by Pluralia) won Mexico’s Caballo Verde 2018 best poetry book prize. The poems published here are from her 2007 collection, Xilase qui rié di’ sicasi rié nisa guiigu’ / La Nostalgia no se marcha como el agua de los ríos (Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater). She works for Mexico’s National Teachers’ University as well as the Mexican Federal Congress. She serves as a vice president of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and lives in Mexico City and Juchitán, Oaxaca.
Reading List
[I traveled the path from the south]
English translation by Wendy Call I traveled the path from the south my feet blistered with memories so tired from dragging all my people’s dreams Are they pushing at my back? Or am I chasing my own delusion? Who am I in this madness in the middle of a sea turned to […]
[My feet won’t pause]
English translation by Wendy Call My feet won’t pause I won’t get lost on the path deep footprints scar the earth’s body many sandals rest here to mark the path of those who have passed my feet won’t pause these two want to arrive on time [No se detendrán mis pies] In the […]