Mexica Mix Av Marina Sanchez

<p>In her new pamphlet, Latinx Mix, Marina Sánchez, one of the most distinctive poets from the UKs Latinx community, explores her experiences of living in Mexico, Spain and the UK.</p><p>Through the arc of Family, Icons and Earth, she writes a profound, rich and well-crafted sequence of poems grappling with displacement, bilingual identity and mixed heritage, challenging cultural icons and affirming her relationship with the planet, rooted in her Native American ancestry.</p><p>By turns lyrical, urgent, sensual and subversive, her powerful use of vivid imagery and language both voice the personal and engage the collective.</p><p><em>Place your hand on this book and you will feel the heartbeat of the poems inside.</em></p><p><em>Marina Sanchez’s poetry is charged with fervour and passion, and deep connection with her Native American, Mexican and Spanish roots – Nahuatl (Aztec) and Spanish tongues entwine to tell their stories, reclaim lost knowledge and celebrate their existence.</em></p><p><em>‘What if language was a body of water…’ the poet asks. In these urgent and powerful poems Sanchez’s ancestral voices are in full flow, singing praise to life, the maternal, and the elemental.</em> – Cheryl Moskowitz</p>