David Bowles

Associate Professor, University of Texas Río Grande Valley

David Bowles is an author and associate professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of Flower, Song, Dance: Aztec and Mayan Poetry (2013), The Smoking Mirror (2015) and They Call Me Güero (2018), among others. He lives in South Texas.

Written by David Bowles

Watercolour illustration of an Aztec person walking, holding a flowered staff, speech glyphs surrounding their head.
POETRY

Learning Nahuatl, the flower song, and the poetics of life

Learning to think and feel in Nahuatl, the poetic language of my ancestors, broke me down and remade me

by David Bowles