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Peregrina/Pilgrim
Written by Ana María Fores Tamayo
"Fores Tamayo's poetry crosses the fault line between Mexico and the U.S., and demands that we take the same visceral journey...These poems become a map for the soul that insists on excavating pain, evoking prayer, and asking questions we know won't be answered. When Fores Tamayo says, 'I hear my father/reciting a faraway poem/in a language of flowers/and white tapestries, we are rewarded with collective spiritual strength and witnessing the poet 'unfurl my arms to the sun.'"
-Carmen Calatayud, author of This Tangled Body
"Fores Tamayo's voice is tender yet unyielding, her lines pulsing with the ache of borders, motherhood, and faith fractured by violence. Peregrina /
Pilgrim stands as both prayer and protest-a bilingual cartography of endurance, reminding readers that to cross a border is to carry an entire world within one's voice."
-Ricardo Nazario y Colón, author of The Moor of the Bronx
"Discover this powerful poetry of witness. Not simply bilingual translations, these multi-voiced poems for those without voice are dual-Mused: one Poet speaks in exquisite Spanish, una declamadora, while the other Poet-another dimension of herself-writes it all down in polished verse-with haunting photographs bridging the gaps between language. These poems present stories few ever hear for lack of listening. This is a poetry that humanizes-the best we, or poetry, can achieve. Claim it for yourself. Peregrina / Pilgrim is not only one of the best books of poetry for now, it's one of the best you'll read, in either language."
-Lorna Dee Cervantes, author of FIRE: Poems Against Pandemic
& From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger