The Community Library
415 Spruce Ave North
Ketchum, ID 83340
United States
Free and open to the public.
Please join acclaimed poet and translator, Michael Bazzett, for a reading from his new translation of the ancient Mayan creation story, The Popol Vuh, his translation of which has garnered many awards, including New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2018 and World Literature Today Notable Translation.
Michael Bazzett
Michael Bazzett is the author of You Must Remember This, which received the 2014 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, The Interrogation, and most recently The Echo Chamber. He is also the translator of The Popol Vuh, the first English verse translation of the Mayan creation epic, which was named one a New York Times Best Book of 2018. His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Ploughshares, The Sun, and Best New Poets. He is a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and lives in Minneapolis.
By turns poetic and lucid, sinuous and accessible, this verse translation of the Mayan epic—the first of its kind, and the first in the Seedbank series—breathes new life into an essential tale.