Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. This collection begins with the break in family origin and that circumstance amplifies, as if in expansive waves, to other realms, such as nation, world, and language. --Jacobo Sefamí
LITANE is full of searches, quests: some are spiritual, looking upward, looking back, always questioning the dubious hierarchies of the sacred. Longing is usually a manifestation of reverence; here, though, the revered is rarely innocent. --Robin Myers
From the moment I first came into contact with Alejandro's poetry, it impressed me--something here is taken to its furthest consequences: a certain overlapping of planes of language and planes of reality that, on the one hand, depict a landscape or a physical environment, and on the other hand, sketch out the distinct nervure of mental landscapes that eventually converge into a space, into a Mexico, into a city that is in some sense derealized. --Raúl Zurita
