Gabriela Ramirez-Chavezis a Seattle-based poet and translator born to Guatemalan immigrants. As a translator, she focuses on Indigenous literatures of Latin America, especially from Mesoamerica. Her translations of Rosa Chávez (Maya K’iche’ and Kaqchikel), with whom she regularly collaborates, appear in Poetry, Asymptote, and elsewhere.
Maya K’iche’ women of Chuwila Chichicastenango at winter solstice festivities / Courtesy of the authorElena Kame es un hechizo
Elena Kame es un hechizo, muerde con su boquita canina, su saliva conduce…
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