Agua Santa: Holy Water Agua Santa: Holy Water
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Desert MockingbirdEven on Sunday, ©Pat Mora |
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.
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
Additional Reviews"Pat Mora evokes Mexican American experience, mythology and history through lyrics, meditations and chants that combine to cast a hypnotic and haunting spell . . . .The voice in Agua Santa is what beguiles and enchants as it explores the personal and spiritual dimensions of the borderlands."—Alison Townsend, Women's Review of Books "All five senses are put to work here, as Pat Mora leads us briskly through a garden of earthly delights."—Peter Thorpe, Rocky Mountain News |
Poetas y Pintores: Artists Conversing with Verse
Twelve Visual Artists Engage
With The Work of Twelve Poets
Pat Mora is one of the poets featured in "Poetas Y Pintores: Artists Conversing with Verse" is an interdisciplinary project which presents the work of both established and emerging poets as inspiration for the creation of original artwork, allowing Latino/a artists to enter into "dialogue" with the work of Latino/a poets. Click here for more information about the exhibit.
