Central American Book of the Dead by Balam Rodrigo

Poet Balam Rodrigo's Central American Book of the Dead (Libro centroamericano
de los muertos), winner of the 2018 Premio Aguascalientes, Mexico's highest poetry
honor, is a sequence of poems in multiple voices, interwoven with the author's own
narrative, about Central American migrants and refugees, living and dead, journeying
through Mexico to the north. The book also interweaves altered passages from A Brief
Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552) by Bartolomé de las Casas, a Spanish
colonist (later friar and bishop) who became the first and fiercest critic of Spanish
colonialism in the New World and the enslavement of indigenous people.
The work's importance has already been well recognized in Mexico