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Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. At last! A new edition of Emmy Pérez's SOLSTICE—expanded and with Spanish translations of selected poems—a book that set the highest standards for Chicana poets when first published in 2003, for its adroit mixture of lyricism and politics. "Emmy Pérez's poems are elegantly political, never polemical. They discover the beauty in revolution without romanticizing its hardships. From the first moment I encountered her poems, I knew I was meeting a singular voice—one that can find lyricism in struggle, dignity in injustice. Her voice sings of landscape and longing with deftness of image and diction. What a welcome debut."—Allison Joseph "The new generation of Latina poets will be noted for the work of writers such as Emmy Pérez."—Ray González