Description
The brilliant Aztec poetic tradition would have all but vanished after the Spanish Conquest in 1521 without the friars who painstakingly transcribed and preserved the poems in the years that followed. In this new edition of their translations, Edward Kissam and Michael Schmidt – two poets who spent formative years in Mexico – give us powerful echoes of the lyrical and philosophical songs, the songs of rejoicing, sorrow, ritual and war, the laments made by Nezahualpilli and others as the end of their empire approached, and the epics of myth and legend. Their introduction is a distilled account of the background to the Aztec empire, its way of life and its fall, to the role of poetry in Aztec life and to how the poems were preserved.
Riding pisces 
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy 
Bridge 116 
The More Deceived 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
This Is Yarrow 
Comic Poems 
Milk and Honey 
Isn't Forever