AQUÍ ERA EL PARAÍSO / HERE WAS PARADISE

AQUÍ ERA EL PARAÍSO / HERE WAS PARADISE (Libro en papel)

SELECCIÓN DE POEMAS DE HUMBERTO AK'ABAL / SELECTED POEMS OF HUMBERTO AK'ABAL

Q. 210
IVA incluido
Disponibilidad inmediata
Editorial:
GROUNDWOOD
Materia
Poesía hispanoamericana
ISBN:
978-1-77306-495-6
Páginas:
172
Q. 210
IVA incluido
Disponibilidad inmediata

u003cpu003eA collection of poetry by one of the greatest Indigenous poets of the Americas about the vanished world of his childhood -- that of the Maya K'iche'.u003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003eAquí era el paraíso / Here Was Paradise is a selection of poems written by the great Maya poet Humberto Ak'abal. They evoke his childhood in and around the Maya K'iche' village of Momostenango, Guatemala, and also describe his own role as a poet of the place.u003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003eAk'abal writes about children, and grandfathers, and mothers, and animals, and ghosts, and thwarted love, and fields, and rains, and poetry, and poverty, and death.u003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003eThe poetry was written for adults but can also be read and loved by young people, especially in this collection, beautifully illustrated by award-winning Guatemalan-American illustrator Amelia Lau Carling.u003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003eAk'abal is famous worldwide as one of the great contemporary poets in the Spanish language, and one of the greatest Indigenous poets of the Americas. Ak'abal first composed his poems in K'iche' in his mind before writing them down in Spanish.u003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003eKey Text Featuresu003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003eforewordu003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003ebiographical informationu003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003epoemsu003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003etranslationu003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: u003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2 u003cpu003eDetermine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.u003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4 u003cpu003eDetermine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.u003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5 u003cpu003eExplain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.u003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7 u003cpu003eAnalyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem). u003cpu003eu003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2 u003cpu003eDetermine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.u003c/pu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.5 u003cpu003eAnalyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.u003c/pu003e

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