In Between the Light / entre la claridad, Elisa A. Garza continues her clear, intelligent exploration of Mexican American identity with poems of family, romance, female power, and landscape. Interweaving English and Spanish, she constructs a spiritual self on the frontier, aware of honoring her origins but blazing a new trail. As she states, "Soy chicana, / a feminine powerful / romantic with baby-ready / arms and kickboxer legs." Here is an original voice not to be missed.

KAREN BRAUCHER, author of Aqua Curves and Sending Messages Over Inconceivable Distances

Elisa A. Garza "...raise[s] [her] arms / as if in prayer, as if to hug this sky..." to speak of many fronteras, geographical and emotional, poetic and pragmatic, calm and full of turmoil. These poems negotiate the space between her mother's experiences of womanhood, motherhood, and relationship, and the life the poet wants-a life "...free / of the sharp stones and cactus needles / that stuck her mothers and sisters."



IRE'NE LARA SILVA, author of Hibiscus Tacos and furia