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From the Cables Of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger
Lorna Dee Cervantes. Arte Publico Press, University of Houston, Houston Texas, 1991.
IN HER SECOND VOLUME of poetry, From The Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger, Lorna Dee Cervantes affirms her clear and powerful voice, offering us a feast for the senses and food for the mind, exploring the perimeters of language. The poems here have lengthened sufficiently for the poet as philosopher to emerge, and themes as humble and terrifying as grandmothers, genocide, and lovers appear and reappear, deepening with meaning.
Cervantes's language at times sharply explicate's the mood of the poem and stimulates the senses: "On the table between us: a slab of meat that once...