title: Cenzontle/Mockingbird: Songs of Empowerment (English and Spanish Edition)
author:  Daniel Garca Ordaz 
description: Daniel Garcia Ordaz's collection is a multitude of gritos, a pyre of songs, a melody that raps around your bones, covering you in blessings. The work in these pages is not for silent reverence, no, no. Garcia Ordaz spits fire out in the open and as you watch him paint the skies with words and song, you are snapping your fingers, catching all the embers as they settle in your heart. To read Cenzontle/ Mockingbird: Songs of Empowerment is to celebrate all that makes up a bilingual voice laced up in lusciously lyrical truth. --Lupe Mendez, Author of Why I am Like Tequila<br /><br />Daniel Garca Ordaz's collection feels like walking into a circle of old friends. His book is a delightful trilingual party where the chained words carry a young, straight up rhymed beat with twisted double-entendre words. Saxopholaying the music in a fresh, raw manner, allowing the mischievous metaphor to emerge like vegetables picked by his young hands in "La Labor: Migrantes del Valle" -- "in a clumsy squatted waltz in the fog through endless rows of green and dirt and sun." His verses are deeply rooted in the unapologetic Tejano way of life where los vatos locos, los rucos fufurufus, y las jainas tiran chancla all at the same time. He creates a world where Romeo and Juliet become more human. --Ral Snchez, author of All Our Brown-Skinned Angels<br /><br />The poems in Cenzontle/Mockingbird sing with wordplay, rhythm, and honesty. Daniel Garca Ordaz writes edgy, fun, and moving poems that explore the contradictions of life in the borderlands and beyond. Tackling the tough issues such as racial discrimination, poverty, and gender inequality with sharp wit, endearing humor, and grace, these poems ring with empowerment for all. Garca Ordaz is a vital voice in contemporary poetry at once delightful and always resounding with truth. --Katie Hoerth, Editor, Lamar University Literary Press
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  To my husband, Crusberto. You are my Jem. We are like night and day, like the
  sun and the moon, and just possibly from completely different planets. I
  couldn’t live without fiction, and you don’t read anything that doesn’t have
  schematics inside. You never stop singing and I’m always wishing for a little
  bit of quiet. My Spanish is atrocious and your English isn’t much better. But
  in the ways