"Fierce, anguished lyrics. . . . Herrera handles complex, wrenching material with a chilling tone that is at once furiously resistant, unsentimental and deeply wounded. The back-to-back English and Spanish allows the reader a fluid read in either language."–
Publishers Weekly "Juan Felipe Herrera has done a commendable job of bringing the horror of this time to poetry."–
Foreword "The simple, enduring ebb and flow of village life . . . is shattered forever by man's unnatural acts; the fields are drenched in blood and the people murdered. That
Thunderweavers is a hard book to read is a tribute to the power of Herrera's elegiac verses."–
MultiCultural Review "In this poet's voice we hear the distant thunder of Chiapas growing closer–the church bells and the gunfire–as a Mayan family fights to survive."–Martín Espada