About the Book
Drawing on oral and lyrical traditions, this book honors the
grace and spirit of mothers, daughters, lovers, and goddesses.
From a tribute to Frida Kahlo to advice from an Aztec goddess, the
poems explore the intimate and sacred spaces of borderlands
through many voices: a revolutionary, a domestic worker, a widow.
Read a selected poem from the book: Mangos y limones
Highlighted Reviews
"So much has Pat Mora made the Texas landscape hers, I cannot
enter it without recalling her poetry. Not a rose, no. But a
cactus, hoarding the precious agua santa, surviving."—Sandara
Cisneros
"Pat Mora's sensous lyricism makes a special contribution to
the strong and varied literature emerging from the
Mexican-American culture in recent years. She is of those tejana
poets I admire."—Denise Levetrov
"Ms. Mora's poems are proudly bilingual, an eloquent answer to
purists who refuse to see language as something that lives and
changes."
—William Ferguson, The New York Times Book Review
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