<div>This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence.<BR><br> <B>Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San Miguel </B><BR> You see their silhouettes along the stone wall<BR> or arm in arm below the glow of garden lights<BR> huddled like foothills, earth you could plant maize in.<BR> <BR> Cowboy hats and serapes, the smell of beer and<BR> cinnamon churros. You think of family and language<BR> how the music rolls through your hips<BR> <BR> to the sweat behind your knees. How it rushes<BR> through you, to a place you still don’t know.<BR> <BR> ?Lois P. Jones</div>