Calling Home: Praise Songs and Incantations (Canto Cosas)

In hauntingly clear verses, Naomi Ayala's collection Calling Home: Praise Songs and Incantations evokes vivid imagery of contemporary life superimposed on a realm of mysterious spirits and ancient wisdom. The poet uncovers energy and magic in unexpected places and skips from world to world, strategy to strategy, as she traverses the known and named obstacles of racial, cultural, sexual, class, and linguistic identities to arrive at an intersection of infinite possibilities. In so doing, she reveals the lost and rediscovered, the known and unknown, the spiritual amid the material in language that is both celebratory and spellbinding. Calling Home is the fifth volume in the Canto Cosas series.