A review by sumayyah_t
South Texas Experience: Love Letters by Noemi Martinez

5.0

"It's so hard to love you Texas," states a poem by Noemi Martinez, "with your death and denial/when you choke the stars/before they reach their destination." But not all is darkness and despair. Martinez mixes poems that detail love, loss, secret joy, secret pain. dust, flowers, and sunsets with beautiful photographs of the landscape of South Texas. This is a lovely (short) poetry collection that is easy to return to again and again, each time discovering something new.