Class, status, privilege; despite all our talk about equality, they're with us wherever we go. In this poem, Pat Mora, who grew up in a Spanish- speaking home in El Paso, Texas, contrasts the lives of ...

The title poem's explicit treatment of a sister's rape sets a tone of guilt and moral responsibility that dominates Levin's first collection. The poem's ironic refrain, ""While my younger sister lies.

Pat Mora, an El Paso native and a widely respected award-winning author, has won the Texas Institute of Letters’ prestigious Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement. “I take pride in being a Latina ...