Carlos Rigby (June 19, 1945 – May 23, 2017) was a Black West Indian poet[1] from Laguna de Perlas on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
[3][4] Rigby's work particularly focuses on the oral poetic tradition, and incorporates a variety of languages including English, Spanish and Creole.
[6] Henighan writes:As his translator, I found myself with the bizarre task of restoring Rigby's poetry to his mother tongue, which, through a fluke of history, is not his literary language.
The modern part of Rigby's life has taken place in Spanish; English, for him, is the language of a rural, natural world, of parents and children living in villages in the jungle.
My translations must find a way to reflect the fact that for Rigby, in contrast to the experience of most people on this planet, English is a language that expresses what the world was like before technology.