About this Event
About the book:
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 Pe ate, winner of the 2020 Indigenous Literatures of the Americas Award, and translated from the Mayan Ch'ol, these multivocal poems recall the work of Mary Oliver, Joy Harjo, and Adrienne Rich. Honest, searching, and assertively female, Pe ate speaks from and about the body, celebrating an intimate bond with nature while confronting the personal and the political. Carol Rose Little and Charlotte Friedman, linguist and poet, respectively, worked in partnership to bring this unique voice to English-speaking audiences.
About the translators:
Carol Rose Little is an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Oklahoma whose work centers on the Ch’ol language. She learned Ch’ol through her ongoing fieldwork beginning in 2015 in Ch’ol-speaking communities in Chiapas where she has spent extended periods over the past decade. She has also served as an interpreter for Ch’ol speakers in federal and state courts in the United States.
Charlotte Friedman is a poet, author and teacher. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and widely published in literary journals. She is the author of The Girl Pages: A Handbook of the Best Resources for Strong, Confident, Creative Girls (Hyperion). Friedman taught narrative medicine at Columbia University for ten years and in hospitals in New York and Jerusalem.
The conversation partner will be announced soon!
Accessibility note: This event is up two flights of stairs and Lost City Books does not have an elevator. Please contact [email protected] with questions.
Dato de accesibilidad: Este evento toma lugar en el segundo piso y Lost City Books no tiene ascensor. Favor de contactar [email protected] con cualquiera duda.
Event venue & nearby stays
Lost City Books, 2467 18th Street Northwest, Washington, United States
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