Breathing Between the Lines
by Demetria Martinez
The University of Arizona Press
Tucson, Arizona 85721
www.uapress.arizona.edu
ISBN 0-8165-1798
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Demetria Martínez entered the public consciousness by the way of the heart.
In 1994 she captured a Western States Book Award with her first novel, Mother
Tongue, which went on to win widespread national attention. Now, in Breathing
Between the Lines, the writer returns to poetry, her first love.
Many of the poems in this book touch on the themes from Mother Tongue, about
an American activist who falls in love with a Salvadoran political refugee.
Weaving together threads of love and family, social conviction and activism,
loss and renewal, Breathing Between the Lines, carries the reader
deep inside the head and heart of a talented Chicana writer.
Page by page, the journey is an exhilarating one. What we find at the end
is up to us.
Demetria Martínez has been noted mostly for her very political fiction
and reportage/political prose. She is and foremost, however, a poet, and
she demonstrates in these works that the personal and the spiritual are truly
the most political works we can write.
Luis Alberto Urea
Author of Across the Wire