How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems

• The book is part of the publisher’s Seedbank series, which has been praised by the New York Times, influential booksellers, and adopted into classrooms • The author is the only woman to ever publish a book of poetry in Zoque (Indigenous language) and Spanish • This book is the first English translation of the author’s Zoque poems • The book’s engagement with language, Indigenous ways of living, gender, feminism, and environmental activism offer opportunities for wide coverage and reader engagement • For readers of Joy Harjo and Natalie Diaz • The book's introduction is authored by award-winning Indigenous poet Jake Skeets • Trilingual text, with Zoque, Spanish and English • Four-color interior, with the Zoque and Spanish poems set in color ink

© 2024 Milkweed Editions (Audiobook): 9781571315960
© 2024 Milkweed Editions (Ebook): 9781639550210

Translators: Shook, Wendy Call

Release date

Audiobook: January 9, 2024
Ebook: January 9, 2024