Talking with Mother Earth / Hablando con Madre Tierra Minecraft a teen from an island

a teen from an island nation

What had he done to deserve such terrible punishment

the backyard

and the sheer work of carefully digging out the fossil

Talking with Mother Earth / Hablando con Madre Tierra Minecraft a teen from an islandAn Amricas Award Commended Title Raw, honest and powerful, these moving bilingual poems by noted Salvadoran poet Jorge Argueta explore a young Indigenous boy's connection to Mother Earth and how he is healed from the terrible wounds of racism he has endured. Tetl has learned from his grandmother about the spirituality of his ancestors, about how they viewed the earth as alive with sacred meaning. This helps him move from doubt and fear, created by the