Agua Santa/Holy Water (Camino Del Sol)

Drawing on oral and lyrical traditions, this book honors the grace and spirit of mothers, daughters, lovers, and goddesses. From a tribute to Frida Kahlo to advice from an Aztec goddess, the poems explore the intimate and sacred spaces of borderlands through many voices: a revolutionary, a domestic worker, a widow.“Ms. Mora’s poems are proudly bilingual, an eloquent answer to purists who refuse to see language as something that lives and changes.” —The New York Times Book Review“Pat Mora evokes Mexican American experience, mythology and history through lyrics, meditations, and chants that combine to cast a hypnotic and haunting spell. . . . The voice in Agua Santa is what beguiles and enchants as it explores the personal and spiritual dimensions of the borderlands.” —Women’s Review of Books “All five senses are put to work here as Pat Mora leads us briskly through a garden of earthly delights.” —Rocky Mountain News“These poems celebrate women, women who are immediate and eternal, serious and humorous, sacred and profane. But always sensual.” —Texas Books in Review