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Poetry by Yaxkin Melchy

Translated by Ryan Greene

Published by Ethel Zine and Micro Press

31 pages, stab binding

8” x 8” (closed)

Digital printing with sewn and collaged cover

Edition of 75

2025

Click here to spend time with a little interactive digital translation (aka "transfluxion") that Ryan designed to accompany the printed version of the chapbook. Bigger screens (like laptops/desktops) will likely work better. There may be glitches...enjoy the swirl! 

Yaxkin Melchy Ramos (Mexico City, 1985) is a Mexican and Peruvian-Quechua poet, translator, ecopoetics researcher, bookmaker, and artisan-activist-editor. He is the author of THE NEW WORLD, a five-part “cell-book, constellation-book, or choreography-book” which was written intermittently between 2007 and 2017. Currently he is a post-doctoral student at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, where he is researching ecopoetic currents between Japan and Latin America. Since 2017, he has been translating contemporary Japanese poetry to Spanish, and currently he runs the artisanal press Cactus del viento, which focuses on ecological, spiritual, and transpacific poetics. He also publishes on his personal blog, Flor de Amaneceres.

Ryan Greene (b. 1994) writes, translates, makes, and caretakes books in “Phoenix, Arizona,” the city where he grew up. He is currently working with Yaxkin Melchy to translate the first three books of THE NEW WORLD. He's learning.