by Yaxkin Melchy Ramos, translated by Ryan Greene
$6
Vpublished bilingually in Ottawa by above/ground press
Bailaba con el aire
entonces mi historia era el brote de una planta
el reino vegetal de mi corazón crecía
se incorporaba a los ríos
bailaba con el aire
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I danced with the air
so my story was a plant sprouting
my heart’s vegetal kingdom grew
was incorporated into the rivers
danced with the air
August 2025
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first published in Spanish in 2010 by 2.0.1.2. editorial in México as part of EL SOL VERDE, the third book in EL NUEVO MUNDO
cover: Yaxkin Melchy Ramos & Ryan Greene
Yaxkin Melchy Ramos (Mexico City, 1985) is a Mexican and Peruvian-Quechua poet, translator, ecopoetics researcher, bookmaker, and artisan-activist-editor. He is the author of THE NEW WORLD, a five-part “cell-book, constellation-book, or choreography-book” which was written intermittently between 2007 and 2017. Currently he is a post-doctoral student at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, where he is researching ecopoetic currents between Japan and Latin America. Since 2017, he has been translating contemporary Japanese poetry to Spanish, and currently he runs the artisanal press Cactus del viento, which focuses on ecological, spiritual, and transpacific poetics. He also publishes on his personal blog, Flor de Amaneceres.
Ryan Greene writes, translates, makes, and caretakes books in "Phoenix, Arizona," the city where he grew up. For the past several years he has been working with Yaxkin Melchy to translate the first three books of THE NEW WORLD. He’s learning.
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