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HOUSE OF SONG delights the reader with candid snapshots of Latino immigrants working, dancing, and living in the Imperial and San Joaquin Valleys of California. Through her personal observations and skillfully crafted poems, the writer celebrates as well as reveals immigrant life in America. The people, humble and hard-working, live in tandem with nature and god. The book begins with images of people who struggle with assimilation, poverty, family, and prejudice. In Miss Flowers, the author writes about a teacher who has a young girl roll her tongue around a pencil to rid her of her accent. In The Cockfight, she describes a neighbor who uses a cigar to goad a cock to fight. As the book progresses, poems become more introspective and spiritual. In Wheatfield and Desert Wilderness, the author connects us to each other through the beauty in nature. The title, HOUSE OF SONG, refers to the place where Aztec people shared poetry and music. They referred to poetry as flower and song or in xochitl in cuicatl (flor y canto).

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Rosemary Ybarra-Garcia is an educator and a life-long poet. Her work is included in the following publications: Lighthouse Point: An anthology of Santa Cruz Writers, 1988; New to North America: Writing by Immigrants, Their Children and Grandchildren, Burning Bush Publications, Santa Cruz, CA 1997, 2007; L'Ouverture, Atlanta, Georgia, 1994; California Quarterly: A California State Poetry Society Publication, Volume 24, No 3, 1995. She has read for women's studies classes, workshops, and special presentations such as Women and the Muse, in Santa Cruz, CA 1988; Floricanto in Xochitl in Cuicatl, Flower and Song at the De Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, CA 1993; La Raza Bookstore Featured Poet Series, Sacramento, CA 1996; Sargasus Poetry Reading, Sacramento, CA 1996; Pacifica Public Library Featured Poet, 2002, 2003.

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