Pachakuti
by
Kin Ribeiro

Pachakuti is a hybrid text by Kin Ribeiro, a writer and organizer living in Chicago. Ribeiro has received the Paul Carroll Creative Writing Award and their work has appeared in the Allegheny Review and The Wright Side.

“So why did you do it?” I ask...Waman Puma.

“I had no idea where my manuscript was going to end up.

How do you feel when you send out a message to those in power? Do you know if they will actually read it?

No, you just throw it out there, like a prayer. How was I supposed to know that my words would be preserved, printed, photographed, reprinted, scoured, analyzed centuries later? No one knows what will last through time.”

“But why didn’t you imagine something better?”

“I did the best I could for myself with the information I had at the time. Isn’t that all we can do?”

Published by INCA Press
ISBN: 978-0-9977639-8-0
Print Run: 200
43 pages
Print: Printed by The Riso Room in Columbia Missouri, using Tenez, 2026
Editors: Alejandra Salinas, Aeron Bergman, and Laurel V. McLaughlin
Designer: Kamei
Illustrations from Nueva corónica y buen gobierno : (codex péruvien
illustré) writen by Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala, circa1615.

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Book documentation: Oswaldo García