"This is my home this thin edge of barbwire" -Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza
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We are an indie press located in the border town of El Paso, Texas. We publish poetry in English and Spanish by new and established poets. We love innovative, experimental and contemporary poetry with engaging themes such as gender, sex, culture, language, folklore, spirituality, politics and art. We believe writing is activism.
New Releases
The Garden of Dresses by Katherine Hoerth. Buy Now.
"Whoever dreamed that peeling an orange or selecting a grapefruit could be such a sensuous experience? In these juicy poems of the Rio Grande Valley, Katherine Hoerth invites the reader into a world dripping with pleasure and delight. She is a poet willing to explore all the contours of the physical world and relationships, and we are the richer for it." -- Steven Schneider, author of Borderlands: Drawing Border Lives, Prairie Air Show, and Unexpected Guests.
Hymnal by Linda Ravenswood. Buy now
"In Hymnal, Linda Ravenswood contemplates subject matter that is as disquieting as it is beautiful. I understand, as do you that we live in a world of superlatives, however hers is an incredible book." Geoffrey Gatza, Publisher, BlazeVOX Books
Entre la claridad by Elisa A. Garza. Buy now.
"In Entre la claridad, Elisa A. Garza continues her clear, intelligent exploration of Mexican-American identity with poems of family, romance, female power, and landscape. Interweaving English and Spanish, she constructs a spiritual self on the frontier, aware of honoring her origins but blazing a new trail...." Karen Braucher
Post Pardon by Arisa White. Purchase your copy. Read more.
"An astonishing lyricism accompanies the intuitive narrative that weaves throughout Arisa White’s Post Pardon. This stunning collection of poems arranges and deranges the post-partum experience, allowing the reader to witness its speaker grieve and celebrate the birth of a son who is at once ghost child and literal child. I am so very taken by the formal strategies that White ingeniously incorporates to redirect every stage of the poem’s experience, just as I am utterly persuaded by how her syntax creates a remarkable fluidity that results in the undeniable tonal achievement of the collection as a whole. In short, the poems in this sequence are, quite frankly, brilliant. Harrowing to be sure, image after image, Post Pardon is a breathtaking collection, and, as such, introduces Arisa White as a major new talent." Cate Marvin
passwords_ by Juan Manuel Portillo. Available now. Limited Edition. Read more.
"Portillo transforma la inmediatez del correo electrónico en la personalidad silenciosa del receptor que genera los mensajes. A través de passwords_ se revela una “voz” excluida, el silencio creador de una profunda presencia. En la superficie, respuestas con enigma por dentro; en totalidad la entrega personal de códigos que manifiestan la percepción de momentos particulares del ser humano ligado –lenta, angustiante y amorosamente- a nuestra vertiginosa realidad." Dolores Dorantes
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