{"product_id":"stolen-flower-9780300282481","title":"Stolen Flower","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a trailblazing poet, a trilingual narrative in verse that bears witness to a devastating crime and testifies to the power of collective defiance\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 2007, Mexican soldiers raped and left for dead a seventy-three-year-old Indigenous Nahua woman, Ernestina Ascencio Rosario, as she worked in her cornfield. The courts ruled that Ascencio died of natural causes. When journalists investigated, they discovered numerous village girls, as young as twelve, who also had been raped by soldiers. The reports sparked outrage throughout Latin America over gender-based violence, oppression of Indigenous communities, and military impunity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eStolen Flower \u003c\/i\u003eis Irma Pineda's powerful sequence of poems memorializing these events and their ramifications. The poems, which appear here in the original Didxazá (Isthmus Zapotec), Spanish, and English, are a chorus of fictionalized voices: Ascencio herself, the land, and the community grapple with the terror. It is a lament and a call to action, refashioning the testimonio into a tribute to Mexico's Indigenous peoples and their lands, cultures, and languages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrma Pineda\u003c\/b\u003e is an Isthmus Zapotec poet, translator, educator, and Indigenous rights activist. She has two previous collections of poetry in Wendy Call's English translation: \u003ci\u003eIn the Belly of Night and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNostalgia Doesn't Flow Away Like Riverwater\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. \u003cb\u003eWendy Call\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, editor, translator, and educator. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eNo Word for Welcome\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eTelling True Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and the annual \u003ci\u003eBest Literary Translations\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Seattle, WA, on Duwamish land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51720995471634,"sku":"9780300282481","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f368a5db-a195-40dd-9b74-6ae146ca2d47.jpg?v=1762945339","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stolen-flower-9780300282481","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}