Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Latino/ Latina Studies. It's hard between two people./ Some days we walk the clouds of these mountains./ Others I hear only complaints, the straight/ lines of will (God Went Away for the Winter, She Said). A tapestry of cultivated passions -- loves, lovers, barrios, landscapes -- embraced with soul and heart. Her voice is soft and trusting, mature with deep and meaningful experiences. She seems to say, 'Dig softly in this garden because the ground is soft and freshly turned.' The garden being memories, dreams, sorrows, doubts, wonders, which she opens to the reader, enchanting us with her clean, spare, sensual language, its erotic edge, and her revelatory celebrations of loneliness and love -- Jimmy Santiago Baca. Fearless, makes me feel ready for a new skin to emerge -- Frank Morgan.