The sun unwound
Subtitle: original texts from occupied America
By: with English translations by Edward Dorn and Gordon Brotherston.
Contributors: Brotherston, Gordon.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: America -- Poetry.; Latin America -- Poetry.
Description: The result of a 20-year collaboration between poet Edward Dorn and scholar Gordon Brotherston, The Sun Unwound gathers together the disparate voices of oppressed Americans through the centuries: the hymns, songs, and prayers of Mesoamericans and other native peoples; the verse of eight Latin American guerrillas of the 1960s; and works by three of Latin America's most important avant-garde poets of the twentieth century.

The Native Americans saw their cultures obliterated; most of the guerrillas died in their struggles; and the modernists have faced persecution, prison, and torture for their left-wing convictions. Previously untranslated or unavailable to most North Americans, their poems offer a striking counterpoint to the colonialist, capitalist, Anglo-Saxon ethos.
Notes: Spanish poems include Spanish original and English translation.
Includes bibliographical references.
Anthology of Nahuatl, Mayan, Quechua, and Spanish poems.