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Irma Pineda
Isthmus Zapotec Nation, Juchitán, Oaxaca, México
Irma Pineda is an author, editor, translator, and educator in Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico. Her sixth book of bilingual
Spanish-Isthmus Zapotec poetry is Guie’ ni zinebe / La Flor que se llevó (Pluralia Ediciones, 2013). She is the only
woman to have been president of Mexico’s Escritores en Lenguas Indígenas, A.C. (ELIAC, or Association of Writers
in Indigenous Languages). She was a 2013-2015 member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte and
serves on the faculty of the National Teachers University in Ixtepec, Oaxaca.
Thorn Ni cudxi’badu
Ojos de los que no pudimos sembrar más días Eyes of those who could sow no longer
ojos que cansados están ya de buscar eyes so tired of searching
por donde sale la luz del sol for a beam of sunlight
ojos perdidos en el subterráneo eyes lost in the underground
path that carries them each day
del camino que los lleva cada día
rumbo al metal que los mueve toward the metal that moves them
para crear otras máquinas to make other machines
que den vida donde nadie los ve invisible as they give up their lives