Ambar Past

Poet Ambar Past immigrated to Mexico when she was 23. Thirty years ago she made her home in rural Chiapas and learned to speak Tzotzil Mayan. Since moving to Chiapas Ambar has worked to collect, record and translate Tzotzil ritual poetry. She published several anthologies of this poetry with Taller Leñateros, a book cooperative in Chiapas.


Books

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      Incantations
      Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women
      By Ambar Past
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      Incantations

      Incantations

      Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women
      By Ambar Past
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      Mayan women sing sacred magical woman poems.

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