This work inaugurates a series of individual books of poetry in bilingual editions, written by Mexican and American authors.

Maria Angeles Juarez Tellez is a daughter of the natural heart of Mexico, where volcanoes and lava forged valleys of stone and ashes where the people of Michoacan have raised lavish orchards of citrus and avocados for generations.

In the fire of time rescues from the entrails of her body and mind the flames that have tattooed the author inside and out: the adult world of her childhood, the neverending concerns of love and heartbreak, the...