This Side of Skin

Paperback, 72 pages

Critical Praise

Here is a poetry so compelling, so vital, that it mesmerizes the reader, engaging us in Paredez's passion for language, for justice, and for her people as she searches for the origins of home and belonging.

— Marjorie Agosin
Deborah Paredez's This Side of Skin is full of poems that will get under your skin and work their magic. Her voice is smart, full of surprises, a blending of old myths with new meanings, Latina rhythms and a USA American beat, Spanish and English. These are powerful mixtures. The thread of her song takes us safely through these turbulences and comminglings until we come to quote her to that silence that follows full/of words and full of her brave and generous insights. I will be listening for her poems for years.

— Julia Alvarez

Deborah Paredez's This Side of Skin is full of poems that will get under your skin and work their magic. Her voice is smart, full of surprises, a blending of old myths with new meanings, Latina rhythms and a USA American beat, Spanish and English. These are powerful mixtures. The thread of her song takes us safely through these turbulences and comminglings until we come to quote her to that silence that follows full/of words and full of her brave and generous insights. I will be listening for her poems for years. -- Julia Alvarez

Here is a poetry so compelling, so vital, that it mesmerizes the reader, engaging us in Paredez's passion for language, for justice, and for her people as she searches for the origins of home and belonging. -- Marjorie Agosín

ISBN 0-930324-68-4
US $16.00