| Included Work | container of (work) Ak'abal, Humberto, 1952-2019. Poems. Selections (2021) |
| Included Work | container of (expression) Ak'abal, Humberto, 1952-2019. Poems. Selections (2021). English. |
| Included Work | Carling, Amelia Lau, illustrator. |
| Included Work | Hazelton, Hugh, 1946- translator. |
| Included Work | Aldana, Patricia, 1946- editor. |
| Parallel title |
Here was paradise |
| Abstract |
"A collection of poetry by one of the greatest Indigenous poets of the Americas about the vanished world of his childhood -- that of the Maya K'iche'. Aqu̕ era el para̕so / 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 for adults but can also be read and loved by young people, especially in this collection, beautifully illustrated by award-winning Guatemalan-American illustrator Amelia Lau Carling. 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 created and wrote his poems first in K'iche', then translated them into Spanish."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Audience |
630 Lexile |
| Language | Poems in Spanish and English on facing pages. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Ak'abal, Humberto, 1952-2019. Aqu̕ era el para̕so. Toronto : Groundwood Books, 2021 1773064967 9781773064963 |
| Genre/form | Juvenile works. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poésie. |
| ISBN | 9781773064956 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1773064959 (hardcover) |
