My Zocalo Heart (e-book) (used book) | Mary Torregrossa | bookbook.eu

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“Mary’s orchestrated verse flutters and floats along the page. I am completely taken with her work.”

~Katerina Canyon, activist for the rights of women and girls, Poet Laureate

of Sunland/Tijunga, California



“Mary Torregrossa’s poems hold evocative images of memory that caught and drew me in as close as could be possible to the world she writes of. I’ve come to rely on her total recall of the truths that molded her to this earth, and thus to us. From her I’ve learned what a family can bring to bear—on a poet searching for her own light.”

~Anne Babson Cater, author of Strike Root, an award-winning collection of

poems published by Four Way Books



“After I read a book of poems, I want them to ride along in the car with me or come by after dinner. Mary Torregrossa’s poems do just that. They’re about family photos, and the people next door and someone looking for work. At the end of one of my favorites in this collection, a child asks to leave the nightlight on. Well, these poems don’t need a nightlight. They are luminous all on their own.”

~Ron Koertge, poet /young adult novelist, author of Vampire Planet: New

and Selected poems, Red Hen Press



“In My Zocalo Heart, Mary Torregrossa has built a literary installation of words, gently, thoughtfully and artistically collecting everyday moments and weaving them into beautiful and lyrical reflections on life. Her work is mysterious and unexpected; it’s sweet, poignant, and romantic; whimsical, yet haunting and sometimes painful. Torregrossa artfully paints this powerful collection, creating poetic altars, her verse infusing with magical realism the brilliance of ordinary life.”

~Consuelo G. Flores, poet, playwright and Day of the Dead artist