Pity the Drowned Horses

Pity the Drowned Horses is the winner of the first Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. This collection is about place and many of the poems in it are set in the desert southwest on the U.S./Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. Sheryl Luna's poems are also about family and home within the broader context of the border as both a bridge and a barrier. They deal with the bilingual and bicultural city and how a place is longed for and viewed very differently as the observer changes and experiences other cultures.

Author: Sheryl Luna
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 04/05/2005
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.56w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780268033743

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2005 pg. 90

About the Author
Sheryl Luna is an accomplished poet and writer whose work has appeared in literary journals, including The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Puerto del Sol, and Feminist Studies. She has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series and for the Colorado book award. Her second collection, Seven, was published in 2013. She has taught at the University of Colorado in Boulder and Metropolitan State University in Denver. She currently teaches workshops for a community mental health center.