Nostalgia Doesn't Flow Away Like Riverwater

A story of separation and displacement in two fictionalized voices: a person who has migrated, without papers, to the United States for work, and their partner who waits at home. Nostalgia Doesnt Flow Away Like Riverwater / Xilase qui ri di sicasi ri nisa guiigu / La Nostalgia no se marcha como el agua de los ros is a trilingual collection by one of the most prominent Indigenous poets in Latin America: Irma Pineda. The book consists of 36 persona poems that tell a story of separation and displacement in two fictionalized voices: a person who has migrated, without papers, to the United States for work, and that persons partner who waits at home, in the poets hometown of Juchitn, Oaxaca. According to Peridico de Poesa, a journal based at UNAM (Mexicos national university), when it was published in 2007, this book established Pineda one of the strongest poets working in Zapotec, the [Mexican] Native language with the largest literary production.