In this collection of lyrical stories wrought from dreams, history, spirituality and erotic longing, the author creates pieces that are tender yet fierce as she considers grief, death and love, all through the prism of indigenous beliefs.
IRE'NE LARA SILVA, the 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate, is the author of five poetry collections: furia, Blood Sugar Canto, Cuicacalli/House of Song, FirstPoems and the eaters of flowers. She has also written two chapbooks, Enduring Azucares and Hibiscus Tacos, a comic book and a short story collection, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán. She is the recipient of the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction, a 2021 Tasajillo Writers Grant, a 2017 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant, the final Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award and was the Fiction Finalist for AROHO's 2013 Gift of Freedom Award.
