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Critical Praise for Peace in the Corazón

• Mixing Spanish and English words and phrases in a slim first volume of poetry, the author opens a door to her heart. At first it bleeds with empty religion and abusive love, then swiftly comes to a healing realization of its own womanly strength. In church, the poet loses her spirit to chisme, as she watches other women assembled at Mass. At home, she struggles to be free of a jealous and violent lover who would keep her from her friends and her writing.

  — Mary Clare Wickins, in REFORMA Newsletter (Summer 2000)

• After reading these poems I felt a heartfelt joy, wanted to let out a little grito. The victory here is the act of writing. Poems electric and alive, lyrical, and brutally honest. Having travelled my own difficult route in my twenties with only my poetry as roadmap, I am deeply moved by this poet’s triumphant deliverance from pain to peace. ¡Brava!

  — Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street, My Wicked Wicked Ways, and Woman Hollering Creek

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• After reading these poems I felt a heartfelt joy, wanted to let out a little grito. The victory here is the act of writing. Poems electric and alive, lyrical, and brutally honest. Having travelled my own difficult route in my twenties with only my poetry as roadmap, I am deeply moved by this poet’s triumphant deliverance from pain to peace. ¡Brava! -- Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street, My Wicked Wicked Ways, and Woman Hollering Creek

  Mixing Spanish and English words and phrases in a slim first volume of poetry, the author opens a door to her heart. At first it bleeds with empty religion and abusive love, then swiftly comes to a healing realization of its own womanly strength. In church, the poet loses her spirit to chisme, as she watches other women assembled at Mass. At home, she struggles to be free of a jealous and violent lover who would keep her from her friends and her writing. -- Mary Clare Wickins, in REFORMA Newsletter (Summer 2000)