Pichka Harawikuna: Five Quechua Poets
Edited by J. Noriega BernuyEnglish Translations by Maureen Ahern
ISBN: 0-935480-98-6
Price: $15.00
Pages: 96
Pichka Harawikuna: Five Quechua Poets is a collection of work by contemporary Peruvian poets Dida Aguirre, Lily Flores, William, Hurtado, Eduardo Ninamango, and Porfirio Meneses. Presenting poems in Quechua along with their Spanish and English translations, this publication celebrates the rich indigenous heritage of Peru and provides rare insight into a culture that remains largely unknown. Co-published with the Americas Society, Pichka Harawikuna is one of two unprecedented anthologies (UL: Four Mapuche Poets) appearing in trilingual format and published simultaneously.
"All five poets,
now teachers in Lima, write both Spanish and Quechua, and
provide in simple language a record of their dual cultural
identities, and a witness to the sad fate of their people, as
well as the disappearance of their ancestral rites and
myths. The oral tales and native songs by these
previously untranslated poets will also appeal to readers
interested in the anthro-poetics."