Comments on: He Gives Me My Nahuatl Name http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/11/18/he-gives-me-my-nahuatl-name/ online literary magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:09:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Katherine Durham Oldmixon http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/11/18/he-gives-me-my-nahuatl-name/#comment-25054 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:30:26 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.com/?p=6060#comment-25054 Beauty.

]]> By: Peg Duthie http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/11/18/he-gives-me-my-nahuatl-name/#comment-24867 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:26:00 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.com/?p=6060#comment-24867 Hurrah for not easy. Praise for the pushing at the sky.

]]> By: dale http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/11/18/he-gives-me-my-nahuatl-name/#comment-24863 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:57:05 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.com/?p=6060#comment-24863 Wow. Back for my third read. The turn of the last stanza keeps pulling me up short.

The sheer sound brought me back for the second read. The music is gorgeous.

There’s something plaintive that starts from the beginning, the things I’m not. I guess you’re expecting it to turn to affirmation, some triumphant egotism, and instead you get that last picture of the iced over — maize, I guess? — shivering. It’s not all fun and games, being Ceres.

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