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In 1994, she captured a Western States Book Award with her first novel, Mother Tongue, which went on to win widespread national attention. Now, in Breathing between the Lines, the writer returns to poetry, her first love. Many of the poems in this book touch on the themes from Mother Tongue, about an American activist who falls in love with a Salvadoran political refugee. Weaving together threads of love and family, social conviction and activism, loss and renewal, Breathing between the Lines carries the reader deep inside the head and heart of a talented Chicana writer. Page by page, the journey is an exhilarating one. 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In this collection of fifty-three poems, the author of the award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eMother Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e explores the themes that have long characterized her writing: the creative and destructive powers of romantic love, the failure of political systems, the spiritual life, and the need to forgive oneself in order to move on with the work of transformation, both social and personal. Through poems that confront mortality even as they demand social justice, Mart nez writes of surviving in a culture where traditional values often get lost in the complexities of everyday life. Of nurturing relationships with nieces, nephews, and parents while pondering questions of life and death, love and loss. Of caring for one's own body when each cough is an underground nuclear explosion, \/ Unraveling your body's hard-won peace accord. Mart nez cauterizes old wounds inflicted by various agents: death, political repression, betrayal, and of course failed romance: Don't bother, I did it \/ First. Broke my own \/ Damn heart. Here are kernels of loneliness too stubborn to grind \/ Down to blue meal, and the struggle for a renewed sense of self as middle age approaches: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt this age you touch what little sanctity you can muster.\u003cbr\u003e The yearning burns to do more, to do more by hand.\u003cbr\u003e To thread your very life through a needle's eye.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mart nez serves up a heady blend of political and sensual imagery. Her keen observations and compassionate voice lead the reader on a journey of self-exploration, of coping with life's mundanities as well as its heartaches: I could use a loving word, \/ A loaf of bread, a rose, \/ Help with the laundry. 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