Flower and Song
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Shake the flower,
root out song
in your house, Ipalnemoani,
Master of Herons.
— Rejoice!
Perhaps with words
you will be pierced, broken
to understand,
Prince Warriors:
earth is all over with.
— Rejoice!
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 for...
root out song
in your house, Ipalnemoani,
Master of Herons.
— Rejoice!
Perhaps with words
you will be pierced, broken
to understand,
Prince Warriors:
earth is all over with.
— Rejoice!
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 for...






















