i hope the birth of your child is easier than that of this album.






I once wrote a poem in which I called all Latinas "Gods brown daughters." This poem is really a prayer of sorts, offered upward, but also, through the human-to-human channel of art, outward. It is a prayer for communication and for respect. In it, Latin women pray "in Spanish to an Anglo God/with a Jewish heritage," and they are "fervently hoping/that if not omnipotent, /at least He be bilingual."

-Judith Ortiz Gofer