Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Native American Studies. "Finally, this book, long in the growing. Dip into the blood words--words that weld a people's past to peoples' futures, words which five more than they take back, which teach, which know. Somewhere along the way from the mindjail to the east of the freeway there is this viaje, a red and real road through grief and despair, an exit off frustration, signed with la estupidez of cultural and historical illiteracy. We have a way to "shatter...the sadness in the song."--Lorna Dee Cervantes.