"An informal and empathetic document as well as a poetic sequence, 14: Antología del Sonoran elegizes and gives voice to those no longer able to speak their stories. Christopher Bogart's risky yet respectful poems honor the names of these dead, and insist that nothing can sever the bonds that connect us to each other."

Michael Waters, author of The Dean of Discipline (University of Pittsburgh Press)

"The quiet calm of the poems in Christopher Bogart's 14: Antología del Sonoran heightens the despair in the individual stories of these fourteen doomed men and lays bare the tragedy of lives lost in the simple yearning for human dignity."

Daniel Weeks, author of For Now: New & Collected Poems, 1979-2017 (Coleridge Institute Press, 2017)

"'The U.S.- Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds, ' Gloria Anzaldúa wrote in 1987. Three decades later, the open wound has grown deeper and wider, the need to address it and assist with the healing more urgent than ever. A poet citizen sharply aware of the power and limitation of art to bring about change, Christopher Bogart reminds us of the complicitous nature of silence. Soul-wrenching in the directness and sparseness with which they capture each voice, the poems of 14: Antología del Sonoran speak of lives trapped in a system that makes dreaming for dignity a death sentence. Each poem performs a ritual that mourns, restores robbed dignity, and cries for justice."

Mihaela Moscaliuc, Associate Professor (Monmouth University), author of Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010) and Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015)

"Christopher Bogart resurrects the 'Yuma 14' who died on the Devil's Highway that links Mexico to Arizona, seeking the kind of life most Americans take for granted. As their bodies lie in the burning desert or in the brilliant light of the morgue they tell us their stories, their dreams, their hopes. But this is not a book about hope. No, hope is not welcome here, just as these souls were not welcome in our country. 'For her I wanted so much more, ' says one about his now fatherless daughter. 'It was hard to believe I was dead, ' whispers another."

Peter E. Murphy, Founder of Murphy Writing of Stockton University

"The distant deaths of ordinary people usually don't make the news headlines and can be too easily ignored. In 14: Antología del Sonoran, Christopher Bogart rescues 14 such deaths from obscurity and into compassionate focus, bringing their humanity to life. These were 14 men - among the unnumbered migrants - who risked everything to seek the American Dream of making better lives for themselves and their families. Bogart documents each man's death in poems that are both stark factual accounts and movingly eloquent portraits of individuals who dared to dream - and lost to the vast wasteland of the Sonoran Desert. Written with economy of language and vivid details, these poems bear witness to a daily human tragedy that, once you cross the border between knowing and not knowing, is unforgettable."

Linda Johnston Muhlhausen, Author of Elephant Mountain, A Novel

"A cautionary tale written in dried blood, and a grim portrait of the consequences of impossible choices."

Gregg G. Brown, publisher, BLAST PRESS