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Critical Praise for Vida and Other Poems (Signed Copy)

• Those of us who have followed Alma Luz Villanueva's career welcome her latest book, Vida. Villanueva makes extraordinary poetry out of the ordinary events of life, celebrating womanhood, love, and children without the need to tear down men. What a refreshing, positive view of life is in these poems. Villanueva loves life and writes its poetry – and for that we are all the richer.

  — Rudolfo Anaya

• The poetry of Alma Villanueva, as with her prose, is drawn from the gut, her womb, and a vital point in an intelligent woman's mind. Of course, she always speaks from the heart. What she delivers to the reader are the offerings of a whole human being: ". . . utterly sad, utterly alive . . . so new and / so used, in / pleasure and in pain, singing. . . ." She sings, she rages, she lets us know that above all, the poet is a mirror to our own inner triumphs and failures.

  — Ana Castillo

• Amid all the soulless words written by technicians these days, what a deep relief to find yet another book by Alma Villanueva flowing and overflowing with the electric joy of Life. Vida shows us, poem by poem, how to live every moment open to the heartbeat, the love-beat of the world. Alma Villanueva's Vida is a diary of the healing dreams of a 21st century Shaman. Singing into the third millennium the songs of the Yaqui Grandmothers who taught her to listen to the spirits everywhere, the powerful voice of Alma Villanueva infuses the American Visionary tradition of Whitman and Neruda with woman's Energy for creation and compassion. Vida is a vast love poem to Life, a masterwork for a new millennium -- a gift that spirals out from its ancient roots to the stars, a gift from a fierce yet forgiving human heart, a gift of warm-blooded earth and the purest Light. Come, forget the technicians and feast your famished soul on this Joy.

  — Janine Canan. author of Changing Woman

• Alma Luz Villanueva calls our spirits out from the lonely places where they have wandered. Stunning, confident, playful, her words guide us back to this planet's beauty and the power of our own dreams. There, we can gather--one by one--as despair subsides, and we are "ever new."

  — Leslie Simon, co-author with Jan Johnson Drantell of A Music I No Longer Heard: The Early Death of a Parent