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nPoet Balam Rodrigos Central American Book of the Dead (Libro centroamericanon nde los muertos), winner of the 2018 Premio Aguascalientes, Mexicos highest poetryn nhonor, is a sequence of poems in multiple voices, interwoven with the authors ownn nnarrative, about Central American migrants and refugees, living and dead, journeyingn nthrough Mexico to the north. The book also interweaves altered passages from A Briefn nAccount of the Destruction of the Indies (1552) by Bartolomé de las Casas, a Spanishn ncolonist (later friar and bishop) who became the first and fiercest critic of Spanishn ncolonialism in the New World and the enslavement of indigenous people.n nThe works importance has already been well recognized in Mexico. For readersn nin the U.S. and the English-speaking world, it draws a compelling portrait of one of then nmost critical stories of our time, in poems of great formal variety and lyrical depth: then nmassive migration of Central Americans fleeing terror, crime, and extreme poverty, andn nthe persecution and danger they face in traveling through Mexico to the United States.n nThe book is divided into five sections, for the five main countries of origin in thisn nmigration: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico itself. Each sectionn ncontains portraits of migrants; first-person testimonies of the dead, often titled by then nprecise locations where their bodies may be found; and poems that deploy variedn nsources, including news stories and political and scientific reports, to give fuller context n nto the human tales. The beginning and end of the book, and each of its five sections, aren nframed by what Rodrigo calls a palimpsest: his altered passages from Bartolomé de lasn nCasas classic cry of protest, situating the work within a broader Latin American story.n nPoems from the English translation of Libro centroamericano have appeared inn nAsymptote, Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets, and Poetry International.n
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