Agua Santa / Holy Water
144 pages, 5 x 7 3/4
Paperback
Release Date:27 Sep 2007
ISBN:9780816526635
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.
Ms. Mora’s poems are proudly bilingual, an eloquent answer to purists who refuse to see language as something that lives and changes.’ —The New York Times Book Review
