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The brilliant Aztec poetic tradition would have all but vanished after the Spanish Conquest in 1521 without the friars who painstakingly transcribed and preserved the poems in the years that followed. In this new edition of their translations, Edward Kissam and Michael Schmidt - two poets who spent formative years in Mexico - give us powerful echoes of the lyrical and philosophical songs, the songs of rejoicing, sorrow, ritual and war, the laments made by Nezahualpilli and others as the end of their empire approached, and the epics of myth and legend. Their introduction is a distilled account of the background to the Aztec empire, its way of life and its fall, to the role of poetry in Aztec life and to how the poems were preserved.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry anthologies (various poets)

• Full title: Flower and Song
• Subtitle: Poems of the Aztec Peoples
• Author: Edward Kissam
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9780856464232
• ISBN: 0856464236
• ID: 04944821
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 232 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 138 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. September 2009

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