Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater

By Irma PinedaTranslated by Wendy Call These poems tell a story of separation and displacement in two narrative voices: a person who has migrated, without papers, to the United States for work, and their partner who waits at home in southern Mexico. Publication Date: January 16, 2024 Paperback: 9781646052783eBook: 9781646052998 Description Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater / Xilase qui rié di’ sicasi rié nisa guiigu’ / La Nostalgia no se marcha como el agua de los ríos is a trilingual collection by one of the most prominent Indigenous poets in Latin America, Irma Pineda, set in the poet’s hometown of Juchitán, Oaxaca. Biographical Information Irma Pineda is the author of ten books of bilingual Didxazá/Spanish poetry and two volumes of poetry in Spanish. She is also the translator of several Didxazá/ Spanish books and a collaborator or co-editor of several anthologies. Her poems have been translated into ten languages and published throughout Europe and the Americas. Her 2018