Praise for Santo de la Pata Alzada

“Uncompromising and hopeful, cínico y cariñoso, Santo de la Pata Alzada is the

courageous debut by our talented queer/marica/loca poet Lorenzo Herrera y

Lozano. Es un libro y cancionero de lenguas locas, de poesía perversa, del amor

y el coraje del desterrado maricón llegando de nuevo a su ser. It is a young

queer compañero’s search for light for our futures and our pasts. ¡Bienvenido

sea nuestro nuevo santo con su ardiente homoherencia!”

-Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

“this is/beauty that illuminates your heart/humor that lands so deep/you bleed

without feeling the cut”

-sharon bridgforth, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the bull-jean stories and love conjure/blues (redbone press)

“Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano is an inspiring new voice, crafting his world with

provocative imagery and language. His words will resonate in your heart.”

-Emanuel Xavier, Lambda Literary Award-nominated author of Christ-Like (Painted Leaf Press), Pier Queen (Pier Queen Productions), and Americano (Suspect Thoughts Press)

“If a virgin can give birth to a savior, then surely a queen, a poet, a heretic can

await his second coming with a pen, a knife and a bold new truth to hold to

his throat. Santo de la Pata Alzada reads like a new sacred text, one that lifts

anyone who has “fallen from grace.” Each poem is an altar call, inviting you, on

your bare feet, in your chanclas, in your pumps, to take the walk and receive

and reclaim your body: free, healed and blessed.”

-Marvin K. White, Lambda Literary Award-nominated author of Last Rights and Nothin’ Ugly Fly (redbone press)