Flowing effortlessly from the erotic to the political...Agosin has chosen poems that delight and inspire. --Ms. Magazine

The work is varied, but the poems have in common the celebration, without romanticizing, of heritage and the power of remembering. --Joseph Bruchac, American Indian Quarterly As solid and resonant a selection as you'll find in a volume of fifty pages. My only criticism is that it isn't twice as long. -- Adirondak Library

Hans Windelband finds himself, at twenty-six, among the living dead. Somehow, his life has gone terribly astray, but caught in a web of despair, he lacks the strength or desire to try and determine what went wrong--until he opens the morning newspaper and reads his own obituary. An exciting detective story. Recommended. -- Library Journal

This is a writer whose language explores the range of life. --Bette Peretsky Large in scope and meaning and unforgettable. --William Harrison