Homero Aridjis

Homero Aridjis was born in Contepec, Michoacán to a Greek father and a Mexican mother. One of Mexico’s foremost poets and novelists, he is also a journalist, an environmental activist, and a former diplomat. He has written fifty books of poetry and prose.

February 2019Fiction

Excerpt of Carne de Dios

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María Sabina was no stranger to thresholds, she saw invisible creatures, the sacred mushrooms spoke through her—with her voice.
Eva Aridjis and María Sabina ’83. Photo: Homero Aridjis.Towards the end of María Sabina’s life, Homero Aridjis and his wife Betty heard that she was ailing and arranged for her to be transported from her home to Mexico City to receive medical treatment and later to live with them for a time. This photograph of María Sabina and Eva Aridjis is from that period.

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