Lorna Dee Cervantes

From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger Lorna Dee Cervantes First edition

This collection confirms Cervantes' stature as a poet as she stretches the resources of language, imagery and the dialectics of love, hunger and aesthetics to express a penetrating feminist and human vision of her universe. "Cervantes is a poet with a clear, strong voice... Her work is refreshing and deceptively simple, reflecting love of language and music. She manages all this without sacrificing the humor, power, and complexity of themes she explores as a female, Latina-American, lover, intellectual, and writer..." (Jessica Hagedorn).