Ocosingo War Diary: Voices from Chiapas

By Efraín Bartolomé and Kevin Brown

Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Kevin Brown. Efrain Bartolome, a poet from Chiapas, lived through the entire beginning of the Zapatista uprising in 1994. His family, like many in the village of Ocosingo, received death threats from the Zapatista guerrillas who demanded they join them at risk of being declared enemies of the Revolution. This book, equal parts poetry and diary, is his account of that conflict. "A poet from Chiapas, Efrain Bartolome, lived through the Zapatista] uprising in an intense and painful way. His poetry took on a deep historical dimension without ceasing to be poetry." Alberto Ruy Sanchez "In OCOSINGO WAR DIARY: VOICES FROM CHIAPAS, vibrantly immediate idioms and rhythms come alive. Kevin Brown's translation bridges the fluid border between prose-poem and prose narrative." Thalia Pandiri "Telegraphic prose, each word composed with true mastery. I sincerely doubt that, among the innumerable works which have been and will be published about the events that so moved Mexico and much of the world, there is no other that compares to Ocosingo in authenticity and literary value. Destiny saw to it that the right narrator was in the right place at the right time." Enoch Cancino Casahonda"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0988790335
• ISBN13: 9780988790339
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Calypso Editions
• Length: 222 Pages