Full Description
Blue Coyote with Guitar and Other Songs is the first anthology to appear in English by the renowned Mexican poet, Juan Bañuelos (Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, 1932). From its beginnings to its most recent manifestations, this poetry assumes a predominantly dissident stance. In both content and form, the poet's craft is carried out against the tide of recolonization that has washed over his country since the mid-forties. Among the foremost elements of this alternative poetics is its rejection of individualism, one of the ideological pillars of modernization. Another key factor is the way it challenges the nationalism instrumental in the co-optation of the Mexican Revolution, one of the twentieth century's most radical struggles, which, in turn, constitutes a questioning of the comprador class and its exclusionary national project. Lastly, it opts for the alterity of the most marginalized social subjects in modern Mexico, the Indigenous population, whose cultures increasingly determine Bañuelos's poetic vision of the world, moving beyond contemplation and seeking participation.
Contents
Juan Bauelos, the Poet as Indigenous
From Doors of the World
Images for a Surprise
Naked First-Born
This Eve and Its Old Nomads in White
Diamond Wind
Tripping Stone
From I Write on Walls
Immediate Prophecy
Endlessly Among Men
Prehistory
Stone Song
With the Rain and Its Pale Sound of Ferns
Hunger Strike
From Smoking Mirror
Phrases
Definitive Fable
An Hour in Our Face
The Desert of the Cross
Day of the Dead
The Heart of Us All
Waiting Room
A Prisoner Dreams
Satire with a Waltz Ending
Unanimous
Rifle, Leaf Shaking the Entire Tree
Skin of Time
Inlet
So They Might Hear Our Steps
The Descent on the Moon
From Random Destination
Where Stones Move Toward the Day
Perversity of Separation
Coitus Non Interruptus
The Suicide
From Off the Record
Off the Record
From Blue Coyote with Guitar
Blue Coyote with Guitar
Palimpsest
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter XIII: Owl Puzzle
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XIX
From Neighborswithnocondos
Melancholy in the Scale of Being
Aegean Sea Canticle
No One Lives in My Country Now
From Nomads of the Aurora Borealis
Pilgrims of Oxchuc
Mutations
The Mail of Forests
Pap Solito
