Word: moraes
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...girl would go for advice on making the decision between a strapless gown and a halter dress. But on this team, Cruz can talk fashion with the halfback, Diocelina Macias (5 ft. 6 in., 137 lbs.), as she's doing now. Or she can try defensive tackle Patricia Mora (5 ft. 7 in., 170 lbs.). Imelda Chaparro (5 ft. 8 in., 226 lbs.), another lineman, would be another option, but she's on the sidelines after suffering a concussion in last week's game...
When will any baseball fan ever forget the image of Melvin Mora and Roger Cedeno leaping into each other's arms behind home plate, with Rocker watching angrily from the mound? You know you smiled...
Though she is often mediocre, at her best Mora is able to find the tone she is seeking in Aunt Carmen's Book of Practical Saints. She gives voice to the New Mexican religious tradition. And at points, that voice becomes as transcendent as the spirituality which it seeks to represent...
...results of Mora's experiment with folk religion are, unfortunately, mixed. It is a fine line she must walk between the grandeur of religious language and the earthiness of folk traditions, and she often errs on one side or the other. As a result, her poetry can sound stilted at times. "Light enters you through every pore/dissolves you into itself," she writes in "Our Lady of the Annunciation." The imagery is too grand and abstract to touch the reader on a visceral level and too removed from the dirty realities of desert life to sound authentic...
...other times, Mora becomes too engrossed in writing in a folk tradition and falls into the trap of sentimentality and kitsch. "Corn and trees glow in the sunset, grace manifest May our work enrich the earth. Hear our request/This night and at our death, en paz may we rest," she writes in "Saint Isidore the Farmer." Such passages lose the transcendent quality that should mark them as religious poetry. They are too focused on this earth. More often than not, though, Mora manages to find the right balance between religion and reality, between the glory of the next life...