Natalia Toledos The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems, with an award-winning translation by Clare Sullivan, describes contemporary Isthmus Zapotec life in lush, sensual detail. In Toledos poems of love and loss the worlds population turns into fish, death is a cricket, and naked women are made of wet magma. The Black Flower won the Nezhualcóyotl Prize, Mexicos highest honor for indigenous-language literature, in 2004. nFINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD! n nLONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD! nn