bThe latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.bpIn a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Snchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism into a singular body of work that stands for the self and the collective in the same instant. I am woman and I celebrate every vein, she writes, where I guard my ancestors' secrets every Zoque man's word in my mouth every Zoque woman's wisdom in my spit.piHow to Be a Good Savage and Other Poemsi examines the intersection of Zoque struggles against colonialism and empire, and those of North African immigrants and refugees. Snchez encountered the latter in Barcelona as a revelation, spreading their white blankets on the ground as if they'll soon return to sea flying the sail of the promised land the land that became a mirage. Other works b