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the greatest poet of the twentieth century in any language

leading to countless people fleeing and countless others thrown into mass graves

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the city has a voice of its own

to see through their eyes

Season of the Swamp Format:Paperback the greatest poet of theNew Orleans, 1853. A young Zapotec man named Benito Jurez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp along with a small group of fellow political exiles from Mexico. Later, in 1858, he is to become the first indigenous Mexican president, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city. He falls in love with the music and food, but unavoidable, too, is the trade in human beings. A magnificent