Rigoberto González reviews Brenda Cárdenas

Poetry doesn't remain localized in the family for Cardenas, though she acknowledges that family is the origin of the poet's education. Eventually, she seeks other muses and passions, declaring her solidarity with the Zapatistas, identifying with the indigenous textures of Chicano art and with the seductive rhythms of Chicago blues, and celebrating Chicana feminist writers like Cherríe Moraga and Lorna Dee Cervantes...