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Critical Praise for Cande, te estoy llamando

• Deft imagery, keen observation and stunning turns of phrase call out to you from this first collection of poetry where "esa fortuna" is breathed into the threading of nylons, waking birds become a name, and aging becomes lopped-off pigtails that "waggle in the dust like the cut tail of a lizard." This is a fine "calling-out" from una chingona in the making.

  — Lorna Dee Cervantes, author of Emplumada and From the Cables of Genocide

• Cande, te estoy llamando by Celeste Guzmán is a book whose spirited heart beats to the rhythm of the ancestors' empowering legacy. This passionate collection of family poems moves us to remember and celebrate the lives that shaped us, and shape us still. It is a wonder-filled testimonio to the power of reaching beyond imagined limitations. It leaves us with the grounding weight of the grandfather, the merciful empathy of the daughter who steps into her mother's housedress, the child/parent who stands in the healing rain of shared story. Celeste Guzmán understands well that there is no better, more profound way to understand the unique, undaunted self than to write about familia. ¡Ay, familia!

  — Denise Chávez, author of The Last of the Menu Girls and Face of an Angel

Reviews

• Deft imagery, keen observation and stunning turns of phrase call out to you from this first collection of poetry where "esa fortuna" is breathed into the threading of nylons, waking birds become a name, and aging becomes lopped-off pigtails that "waggle in the dust like the cut tail of a lizard." This is a fine "calling-out" from una chingona in the making.-- Lorna Dee Cervantes, author of Emplumada and From the Cables of Genocide

  Cande, te estoy llamando by Celeste Guzmán is a book whose spirited heart beats to the rhythm of the ancestors' empowering legacy. This passionate collection of family poems moves us to remember and celebrate the lives that shaped us, and shape us still. It is a wonder-filled testimonio to the power of reaching beyond imagined limitations. It leaves us with the grounding weight of the grandfather, the merciful empathy of the daughter who steps into her mother's housedress, the child/parent who stands in the healing rain of shared story. Celeste Guzmán understands well that there is no better, more profound way to understand the unique, undaunted self than to write about familia. ¡Ay, familia! -- Denise Chávez, author of The Last of the Menu Girls and Face of an Angel