From Booklist
Guevara writes with immense poise and authority. His images are exact and true; his language is raw yet utterly polished. Furthermore, the word multicultural might have been coined for this poet, who alludes to Dante as casually as he deploys Spanish slang. Voices haunt his book, especially in its homonymous first section, full of the voices of Pittsburgh's poor and working classes, overheard counting out their tragedies and hopes. We hear the pregnant girl abandoning her child, the old woman fighting caterpillars on her one backyard tree, the one-armed former second baseman turned mechanic. Guevara is neither sentimental nor sensational, but the cool accuracy of his free verse does not hide his empathic connection with these urban survivors. Other poems in his fine collection explore the intricacies of memory and heritage. Patricia Monaghan
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Review
"What characterizes all of [the poems] is precise and surprising language, a brilliance of affect, that establishes Guevara as one of the most original yound American poets."
--Poetry Magazine
--Poetry Magazine
“This book evokes a world utterly specific and individual and, at the same time, the world we all live in: a world both beautiful and ruined.”
—Lynn Emanuel
—Lynn Emanuel
