How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems essays It challenges scholars to add

It challenges scholars to add the figure of the elder to their categories for studying religion and urges them to rethink the category of tradition as something fluid rather than fixed

Through poetic vignettes whose unconventional forms mirror the nonlinear

As it moves from one language to another the core meaning remains the same

and the raw

In evocative prose laced with political savvy

How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems essays It challenges scholars to addThe latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas. In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Snchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism into a singular body of work that stands for the self and the collective in the same instant. I am woman