{"product_id":"carapace-dancer","title":"Carapace Dancer","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781646053551\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (US)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCarapace Dancer\u003c\/i\u003e, Natalia Toledo revisits some themes from her award-winning collection \u003ci\u003eThe Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (tr. Clare Sullivan, Phoneme, 2015).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToledo returns to the landscape of her childhood where animals predict the future and grandmothers shape masa. Again, she questions Zapotec traditions even as she mourns their disappearance. But in these poems Toledo takes more risks: she exposes her pain and that of her people in images at once elegant and raw. Like the crab, she edges into the past, but the hard shell of experience or cynicism provides only temporary protection to the human vulnerability beneath it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41506872623237,"sku":"PR402281","price":51.5,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/9781646053551.original_TNXPUQL7ANT0.jpg?v=1769644606","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/carapace-dancer","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}