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Balamku
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Balamku

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Winner: 2nd place, International Latino Book Awards 2020 for Best book of Poetry in Spanish A book of poems by Xanath Caraza translated by Sandra Kingery, and a foreword by Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez. There are a thousand registered ancient Maya city sites just in the Mexican state of Campeche (west side of the Yucatan peninsula), including the dozen visited by poet Xanath Caraza, where she composed the poems in this text. Balamku is one of those sites, and most moving to view and experience. It is small for a Maya site, and yet still covers 62 acres, with structures in two sections: one of which has three plazas, the other four, and a large ballcourt. Its architectural style is in the Peten tradition. Only re-discovered and opened in 1990, the site’s highlight is an elaborate and extraordinary plaster fresco or frieze, protected through the centuries due to being enclosed in the interior of a building. Native civilization has long been ignored and denigrated by our educational system, due to the colonizing message, and an attitude passed from generation to generation in our societies. The ancient cities of our hemisphere, Calakmul, Balamku, others under the Maya umbrella term, and many in central Mexico, are important to view and study. Xanath Caraza’s verses will provide a spiritual roadmap.Hay mas de mil sitios mayas antiguos registrados solo en el estado mexicano de Campeche (el lado oeste de la Peninsula de Yucatan), incluyendo la docena visitada por la poeta Xanath Caraza, donde compuso los poemas en este texto. Balamku es uno de esos sitios, el mas conmovedor para ver y experimentar de todos. Es pequeno para ser un sitio maya, y aun asi cubre sesenta y dos acres, con estructuras en dos secciones: una de las cuales tiene tres plazas, la otra cuatro y una extensa cancha de pelota. Su estilo arquitectonico es parte de la tradicion del Peten. Fue tan solo redescubierto y abierto en 1990, lo mas destacado del lugar es un fresco revocado o friso elaborado y extraordinario, protegido a traves de los siglos por estar localizado en el interior de un edificio. La civilizacion nativa ha sido largamente ignorada y denigrada por nuestro sistema educativo, debido al mensaje colonialista, y a una actitud transmitida de generacion en generacion en nuestras sociedades. Las ciudades antiguas de nuestro hemisferio, Calakmul, Balamku, otras bajo el termino amplio maya y muchas en el Mexico central son importantes para ser vistas y para ser estudiadas. Los versos de Xanath Caraza nos proveeran de un mapa de ruta espiritual.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pandora Lobo Estepario Productions
Date
2 April 2019
Pages
230
ISBN
9781940856391

Winner: 2nd place, International Latino Book Awards 2020 for Best book of Poetry in Spanish A book of poems by Xanath Caraza translated by Sandra Kingery, and a foreword by Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez. There are a thousand registered ancient Maya city sites just in the Mexican state of Campeche (west side of the Yucatan peninsula), including the dozen visited by poet Xanath Caraza, where she composed the poems in this text. Balamku is one of those sites, and most moving to view and experience. It is small for a Maya site, and yet still covers 62 acres, with structures in two sections: one of which has three plazas, the other four, and a large ballcourt. Its architectural style is in the Peten tradition. Only re-discovered and opened in 1990, the site’s highlight is an elaborate and extraordinary plaster fresco or frieze, protected through the centuries due to being enclosed in the interior of a building. Native civilization has long been ignored and denigrated by our educational system, due to the colonizing message, and an attitude passed from generation to generation in our societies. The ancient cities of our hemisphere, Calakmul, Balamku, others under the Maya umbrella term, and many in central Mexico, are important to view and study. Xanath Caraza’s verses will provide a spiritual roadmap.Hay mas de mil sitios mayas antiguos registrados solo en el estado mexicano de Campeche (el lado oeste de la Peninsula de Yucatan), incluyendo la docena visitada por la poeta Xanath Caraza, donde compuso los poemas en este texto. Balamku es uno de esos sitios, el mas conmovedor para ver y experimentar de todos. Es pequeno para ser un sitio maya, y aun asi cubre sesenta y dos acres, con estructuras en dos secciones: una de las cuales tiene tres plazas, la otra cuatro y una extensa cancha de pelota. Su estilo arquitectonico es parte de la tradicion del Peten. Fue tan solo redescubierto y abierto en 1990, lo mas destacado del lugar es un fresco revocado o friso elaborado y extraordinario, protegido a traves de los siglos por estar localizado en el interior de un edificio. La civilizacion nativa ha sido largamente ignorada y denigrada por nuestro sistema educativo, debido al mensaje colonialista, y a una actitud transmitida de generacion en generacion en nuestras sociedades. Las ciudades antiguas de nuestro hemisferio, Calakmul, Balamku, otras bajo el termino amplio maya y muchas en el Mexico central son importantes para ser vistas y para ser estudiadas. Los versos de Xanath Caraza nos proveeran de un mapa de ruta espiritual.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pandora Lobo Estepario Productions
Date
2 April 2019
Pages
230
ISBN
9781940856391