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Stolen Flower

Stolen Flower

Pineda, Irma
Call, Wendy

Paperback

Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0300282486
ISBN13: 9780300282481
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Nov 18 2025
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

From a trailblazing poet, a trilingual narrative in verse that bears witness to a devastating crime and testifies to the power of collective defiance

Longlisted for the 2026 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

In 2007, Mexican soldiers raped and left for dead a seventy-three-year-old Indigenous Nahua woman, Ernestina Ascencio Rosario, as she worked in her cornfield. The courts ruled that Ascencio died of natural causes. When journalists investigated, they discovered numerous village girls, as young as twelve, who also had been raped by soldiers. The reports sparked outrage throughout Latin America over gender-based violence, oppression of Indigenous communities, and military impunity.

Stolen Flower is Irma Pineda's powerful sequence of poems memorializing these events and their ramifications. The poems, which appear here in the original Didxazá (Isthmus Zapotec), Spanish, and English, are a chorus of fictionalized voices: Ascencio herself, the land, and the community grapple with the terror. It is a lament and a call to action, refashioning the testimonio into a tribute to Mexico's Indigenous peoples and their lands, cultures, and languages.

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