"It's time to celebrate the poet and buy this book, it's a new voice, not one tied to timid convention or gimmicky stealth that results in poetry of cowardice-t tries to please no one, vociferates its own claim to Chicano identity and culture and does so with exuberance, even compassion and vulnerability-yes, compas y vatos y locos, get off it and go out and buy this book and pass it to other plebe, it's time to celebrate this poet, unabashedly, honor this book written in blood, tears and laughter and pride, and love, adelante!!" Jimmy Santiago Baca - author of Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio.