This collection of Guerrero's new and selected work documents the
struggle to both honor and disrupt cultural, social, and familial
traditions and histories. Hers is an honest and fearless examination of
racism, sexism, domestic abuse, illness, and loss.
Feminist writer, mother, and educator, Guerrero has been described by
the San Antonio Current as "a badass of poetic proportions." In her
poems, bodies sway "above the cotton like sheets on a line," women turn
into roosters, grief is carried like a newborn, snake venom is made in
the marrow of the atlas bone, and the greatest revolution is "to sing
graveside, to whisper intention into bowls of beans, to dance / without
fear or fight." With her unfailingly bold imagery and sharp eye, this
collection of Guerrero's work is a carefully constructed artifact by a
poet who works and thinks with her hands.
This volume is the fourteenth in the TCU Press Texas Poet Laureate
series.