Ruin
Cynthia Cruz
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Mexican American Women Authors Poetry (Poetic Works By One Author) Mexican American Authors
Reader, take heed: These are no ordinary poems about childhood. In a series of secular prayers, Cynthia Cruz alludes to a girlhood colored by abuse and a brother's death. A beautifully understated sense of menace and damage pervades this vivid, nonlinear tale.