A review by jenlabrador
Dreams from Many Rivers: A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems by Margarita Engle

4.0

I loved this book. The poems were beautiful. The collection gave such a continuity of land and people that I had never thought about before. When Americans talk about Mexicans in the states, they are always referred to as immigrants or people that come to this land and don't belong here. This book and the way the poems are arranged really illustrates how of course Mexicans belong here. They are the indigenous voices of America and everyone else are foreign. The book does an excellent job of showing how political lines have separated people from their land and history, and as the book progresses to modern day times, the reader continues to follow these same voices as they demand to be heard and treated equally.