Incantations by Mayan women
By: Fathermothers of the Book: Ámbar Past with Xun Okotz and Xpetra Ernándes
Contributors: Taller Leñateros (San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico); Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Taller Leñateros
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chiapas, Mexico
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Tzotzil poetry; Translations into English; Tzotzil women; Women shamans
Other titles: Incantations
Work titles: Conjuros y ebriedades. English
Notes: The copies in this 2nd edition are unnumbered.

Text and illustrations printed in black on off-white art paper.

"The three-dimensional cover, [a kind of mask] cast from recycled cardboard, corn silk, and coffee, represents the Mayan earth goddess Kaxail. Her eyes open onto handmade endpaper[s] blackened by soot and studded with palm fronds ... the product of a 20-year effort to compile a kind of modern Mayan codex ... contains dozens of silk-screen illustrations based on ancient Mayan folk-art patterns but painted by contemporary women" -- Publisher's website.

Issued in a brown cardboard clamshell box painted and stenciled in black; lined with the same black "endpapers" used in the book.

Essays in English. Poems in Tzotzil and English.