[New-Poetry] A poet returns: Lorna Dee Cervantes

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A poet returns
Cervantes' impressive 'Drive' promises even  more
Rigoberto González / Special to the Times 
   
"Drive"by Lorna Dee Cervantes.   

After nearly a 15-year lapse since her last full-length  publication, Lorna 
Dee Cervantes makes an impressive comeback with "Drive"  (Wings Press, $24.95 
hardcover), a five-books-in-one, 307-page poetry tome she  claims is only the 
first quartet. 
The opening sequence, "How Far's the  War?," taps into the poet's political 
identity with its eye-opening accounts of  global atrocities, many committed in 
the name of American capitalist interests.  Akin to Eduardo Galeano's "Memory 
of Fire," this book enlightens the reader  about the world outside the 
privilege of safety:
 


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