Magnificent Errors

Sheryl Luna's first collection, Pity the Drowned Horses, won the inaugural Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize for emerging Latino/a poets (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005). She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, Anderson Center, Ragdale Foundation, and Canto Mundo. She received the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award from Sandra Cisneros in 2008. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Puerto del Sol, Kalliope, and Notre Dame Review, among others.

• I1. Lowering Your Standards for Food Stamps 2. The Vocation3. The Thief 4. Change5. Tornillo's Tent Prison for Migrant Children 6. Salt Shaker7. Meditation on Hunger8. Breathing the Border's Fire 9. The Poet10. Autumn's Art 11. Forehead12. Regeneration13. What I'd Say if I had Fifteen Minutes of Fame II14. Shock and Awe15. Neighbors Smoke on an Apartment Porch Owned by aMental Health Agency 16. Secret Missionary for the Virgin Mary Off His Meds17. The Sailing Bicycle18. Shock Treatment 19. Lit20. Lamentation to Praise 21. The Language of Drowning22. The Star Song23. To Rest24. The Leaves25. Manic with Depression 26. Eccentric 27. A Homeless Poet Friend Rages at the World's Lesser People28. The Party29. Adopting Step-Father 30. Alone 31. Voice32. Figures 33. Anxiety and Diagnosis 34. The Artist Addressing Violence 35. The Singer36. She Wishes She Never Had37. I.Q. Over 160? 38. The Prayer III 39. Night40. Rubbernecking 41. Listening to Sky42. Risk 43. The Laugh 44. We Believe in Kindness Because It's Hard to Die45. Casualties 46. The Witness47. The Hummingbird 48. Clouds and Sapling 49. Prayer for this Clay Earth50. Mud 51. Finding Water52. The Transgression

"Like her acclaimed first book 'Pity the Drowned Horses' and second book 'Seven,' Luna's newest work reminds readers, no matter a person's socio-economic or mental status, all of humanity is linked. Every poem in this collection is a standout. Each piece succinctly captures the discontent of the country's working poor." —Latino Book Review"Since her 2005 debut Pity the Drowned Horses, Luna has excelled at the elegant lyric, yet what stands out here are the interior landscapes that bridge a visionary attention to nature and raw reflections on mental illness, abuse, trauma, and healing. . . . Luna's book beautifully expands upon the many intersections between Chicana ecopoetics and disability poetics, while claiming its own lyric territories." —The Latinx Project"Sheryl Luna's voice is unforgettable because she has a visionary touch where her experiences become our own. As readers, we are blessed to find ourselves in her poems. We have been waiting. As a poet, she shows us, in powerful poem after poem, what it takes for the poet to reveal her place in a difficult world. The result is a book that opens when the poet says so and rests, gently, in the reader's hands." —Ray Gonzalez, author of Feel Puma"In Magnificent Errors, Sheryl Luna shows us once again why she is one of America's premier poets. Her gutsy, gorgeous language, her hard-won vision of grit and grace—all bid us enter the universe of a poetic saint whose earthy wisdom is unparalleled." —Joy Roulier Sawyer, author of Lifeguards and Tongues of Men and Angels"With Magnificent Errors, Luna has broken the regional boundaries of the American Southwest and become one of America's finest poets." —Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning