These are poems of lyric beauty and also of masterful storytelling. Golden is able to compress a novel's worth of living into a few crystal-clear lines.--Chloe Martinez, RHINO Poetry

Golden provides a fuller, more nuanced history of various social issues with craft and concern laced together by the tributaries that wind through Mexico and Chicago.--Newcity Lit

Golden provides a fuller, more nuanced history of various social issues with craft and concern laced together by the tributaries that wind through Mexico and Chicago.--Newcity Lit

[A] gathering of radiant poems about lives on the hard edge of America.--Third Coast Review

Her rivers are urgent witnesses; her rivers sing truths, shimmer in the darkness. Here are songs pure as water to nourish and cleanse us in the season of lies.--Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street