Mayan Drifter: Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of America

ISBN: 9781566394826 ISBN10: 1566394821.
Written by: Juan F. Herrera.
Softcover, 272 pp..
In a variety of narrative voices, poems, and a play, across time, Juan Felipe Herrera recounts how the Maya have been invaded by the Spanish, the government, the multinational corporations of the petrochemical industry, and anthropologists. The Maya survive and resist as their numbers dwindle and the forces that mount against them become more powerful.