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by Pat Mora
ISBN: 978-0-93477-057-6
Publication Date: 1986
Bind: Trade Paperback
Pages: 88
Mora explores the political, cultural, social and emotional borders that divide people, forming their individual identities.
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Pat Mora is the winner of the Southwest Book Award for Borders and for her first book of desert incantations, Chants. In Borders, the El Paso native explores borders – political, cultural, social, emotional – that divide people, forming their individual identities while also challenging the very concept of society. As a poet who brings two cultures, two traditions, two languages and nations together, Mora holds a positive, a sane position on an otherwise divisive topic.
“Her poems are chants that hold the reader mesmerized until late in the day when poem are transformed into wishful dreams.”
—Nuestro Magazine
“We begin one of Mora’s poems as if embarking on an exploration of an unknown country. When we finish, we have learned so much about its topology we feel we can claim the land as ours. These are ardous expeditions, though, for both writer and reader. You don’t plant your flag without earning the right.”
—El Paso Times
