A stone discovered in Veracruz, Mexico, has the earliest form of text in the Americas...
it has paired sequences of signs that could be poetic couplets...
The Olmec were not previously known to be literate.
About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
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I'm not surprised. When whites first came to the Americas, they encountered societies far superior to their own in all fields--mathematics, medicine, astronomy, agriculture and technology. I just finished reading 1491, which sheds new light on the enormity of what was decimated by the arrival of the Europeans.
Make a lifesize replica for the Poetry Bus? I'm sure they have room. (hehehehe)
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