Sorrow

"This is a book of wounded song, an elegiac account of a lover's grieving for the death of her beloved. Sensitively rendered into English...Sorrow distills powerful feeling, giving new life to one of poetry's oldest, most essential themes." —San Francisco Chronicle

"At a time when critics seem embarrassed by writing that displays any feeling, when technology increasingly seems to be the model for the body and brain, it is oddly comforting to read a book that devotes itself to understanding and experiencing the nuances of emotion." — Rain Taxi

 

"Alegría invokes the ancient gods and lovers time and again, and these simple lyrics of solitude and sorrow, with their haiku-like brevity, at their best achieve the purity and clarity of classical verse." —Kirkus Reviews

"...terse, exquisite, excruciating lyrics." —The Boston Sunday Globe

"...employing the Greek Myths, Alegría explores that twilight land between the living and the dead." — Culture Watch

"A deeply moving collection of poems..." — Hartford Advocate