My Umbilical Star/Mi Estrella Umbilical
by
Yaxkin Melchy {tr. by Ryan Greene}
Yaxkin Melchy Ramos (Mexico City, 1985) is a Mexican and Peruvian-Quechua poet, translator, ecopoetics researcher, bookmaker, and artisan-activist-editor. He is the author of THE NEW WORLD, a five-part “cell-book, constellation-book, or choreography-book” which was written intermittently between 2007 and 2017. Currently he is a post-doctoral student at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, where he is researching ecopoetic currents between Japan and Latin America. Since 2017, he has been translating contemporary Japanese poetry to Spanish, and currently he runs the artisanal press Cactus del viento, which focuses on ecological, spiritual, and transpacific poetics. He also publishes on his personal blog, Flor de Amaneceres.
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Ryan Greene (b. 1994) writes, translates, makes, and caretakes books in “Phoenix, Arizona,” the city where he grew up. He is currently working with Yaxkin Melchy to translate the first three books of THE NEW WORLD. He's learning.
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