Selection of Poems

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  • Feliciano Sánchez Chan

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https://doi.org/10.7764/ESLA.61289

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Feliciano Sánchez Chan

Yucatec Maya poet, Feliciano Sánchez Chan, is part of a group of writers such as Briceida Cuevas Cob and José Joaquín Balam Che’, who continue to write in their native Mayan language. Feliciano’s poetry is rich in imagery and symbolism derived from local folklore and myths of the Maya people in the Peninsula of Yucatan. Sánchez Chan has won the Itzamná Prize for literature twice and the Domingo Dzul Poot Prize for works he published in the Mayan language. Recently, he visited Roanoke College in 2017, where he was well received, to present a selection of his poetry to commemorate 175 years of history of the college.

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2023-06-22

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