University of New Mexico Press

IntroductionPatricia A. Peters The AuthorSor (Sister) Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648/517-1695), canonized by literary historians of Spain's Golden Age, but not by the church she served, is considered the last great practitioner in Spanish poetry of the baroque style, which dominated European...

Foreword "Somos la raza amarga" (We are a bitter race), say Sonorans half-joldngly about themselves. Or of their homeland, "Sonora: where civilization ends and carne a-sada [grilled skirt steak] begins." And thanks be to God that it is so! The Mexican state that borders Arizona on the south is...