Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Lyrical, compassionate, and uncompromisingly realistic, these feminist poems embrace a wide variety of experiences: womanhood, motherhood, affection for the earth and animals, the author's love of the Native American way of life, and concern for the future of the planet. Her poems fuse the personal and political, expressing the sensual world in abstract terms and revealing a belief in the power of poetry to connect us to the world, to each other, and to ourselves.

Author Hometown: San Miguel MEX



About the author: Alma Luz Villanueva is a novelist, poet, essayist, and writer of short fiction. Her work has won several awards including an American Book Award for her first novel, THE ULTRAVIOLET SKY, and a Latin American Writers Institute Award for poetry for PLANET with MOTHER, MAY I?. She lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.