Brava

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Let us celebrate our good fortune: that Violeta Garza's voice is now part of a literary lineage of poetas chingonas ... </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Brava</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> brimming with empathy passion but also bravado soothes with the sensibility of a healer and commands with the ferocity of a comadre which is another way of saying that there's love medicine to be found in its empowering inquiry... </span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Rigoberto González poet and editor <em>Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Brava</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is just as complex as the title suggests ... the poetry displays a range of emotions without leaving the reader with deep sorrow because good humor and wit is woven throughout ... 'A veces me pongo brava' she claims. Pero no a veces I claim. Garza is always valiant audacious atrevida salvajita and yes muy brava. </span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Eddie Vega author of <em>Somos Nopales </em>2024-2027 Poet Laureate of San Antonio</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>This book is a holy reckoning. A honeyed lament. A bold prayer ... These words remind us that being too much too tender too jiggly is divine. If you've ever needed permission to weep scream whisper or cackle under the covers with your soul sister this is your scripture. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>BRAVA</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>! </span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>-Anel I. Flores author of <em>Curtains of Rain</em> & <em>Empanada: A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas</em> </strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Deeply personal poems that give exquisite voice to the cares desires pleasures and regrets we share as sentient beings. Subtle yet accessible serious yet humorous Garza's creations are profoundly moving. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>-Dr. Arturo Madrid T. Frank and Norine R. Murchison Distinguished Professor Emeritus Trinity University</strong></p>