Wine-sipping syllables, a communion of bones, impetuous pinches of chile, and parrot-sassy guacamole. With a melange of aromas and tastes, colors and sounds, award-winning poet Pat Mora invites readers into her home in this new collection of forty-nine odes. Inspired by Pablo Neruda s Odas Elemantales and reinvented with a Latina identity, Mora celebrates the ordinary in lyrics that are anything but. Her poetry is the poetry of space house patterns and adobe constructions and the human rhythms that happen inside. It is also the poetry of what she loves chocolate, books, dandelions,...