Michael Bazzett

Jun 24, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Humberto Ak’abal |Michael Bazzett |Janani Ambikapathy

By Humberto Ak’abal Translated By Michael Bazzett The Kʼicheʼ Mayan poet Humberto Ak’abal was born in the western highlands of Guatemala, a place his translator, Michael Bazzett, describes as holding “mountains covered in cloud forest.” This strangely enticing and obscured view of the mountains is echoed in If Today Were Tomorrow, in which the visible is often difficult to grasp.

Apr 30, 2024 | libro.fm | Michael Bazzett

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Jan 5, 2024 | milkweed.org | Humberto Ak’abal |Michael Bazzett

A masterful bilingual collection of poems rooted in K’iche’ Maya culture illustrating all the ways meaning manifests within our world, and how best to behold it. “My language was born among trees, / it holds the taste of earth; / my ancestors’ tongue is my home.” So writes Humberto Ak’abal, a K’iche’ Maya poet born in the western highlands of Guatemala.

Jul 28, 2023 | poetry.onl | Michael Bazzett

Michael Bazzett is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Echo Chamber (Milkweed Editions, 2021). His work has appeared in Granta, Agni, The American Poetry Review, The Sun, The Nation, and The Paris Review. His verse translation of the Mayan creation epic, The Popol Vuh, (Milkweed, 2018) was named one of 2018’s best books of poetry by the New York Times. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship, he lives in Minneapolis.

May 11, 2023 | theparisreview.org | Michael Bazzett

By Michael Bazzett May 11, 2023 On Poetry For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking some poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Michael Bazzett’s “Autobiography of a Poet” appears in our Spring issue, no. 243. How did this poem start for you? Was it with an image, an idea, a phrase, or something else? It was a phrase.