"Araceli Cab Cumi is a contemporary Maya writer, grassroots leader, and political party activist from Mexico. She is also the only indigenous woman to have been elected to the State Congress of Yucatan, serving two terms of office." "Discarded Pages is Cab Cumi's life narrative …
The life and writings of a unique Maya woman provide an intimate portrait of this community activist, former state congresswoman, and admired leader and role model for all Maya women.
Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile . The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becomingthe "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafes and bars of the Univer…
"Auxilio Lacouture becomes famous as the sole person who resists the army's 1968 invasion of the university. She hides in a ladies' room for twelve days. As she waits the occupiers out, famished, Auxilio recalls her life, her lost teeth, her beloved friends and poets, but she is…
Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile . The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becomingthe "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafes and bars of the Univer…