KIRKI QHAÑI :Container of Andean Poetics

Elvira Espejo Ayca is one of the most emblematic Bolivian poets of her generation. But there is more than Elvira Espejo’s poetry: she is also a visual artist, a storyteller, a singer, a weaver, a philosopher, a museum director, a teacher, a lecturer, and finally, she is also a binational Aymara-Quechua woman from the Ayllu of Qaqachaka, in the southern Oruro province, in the Central Andes – embracing millenary ancestral tradition, and making contemporary Bolivian culture shine internationally. 

The book contains introductions by Bolivian-German writer, curator and philosopher, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz; professor in the Department of Literature at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Miguel Rocha Vivas; and INCA Press founders Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas.

Illustrations by Salvador Pomar, and book design by Rafaela Drazic.