I love this story!
Shelley Stephens
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WHAT AN INCREDIBLE IDEA THIS IS!!
I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT BEFORE!
Rayelan Allen
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The scene-a-day format is a unique and powerful vehicle
for this wild ride into the heart of a Mexican countrygirl.
This original work entered into my inner world. I loved it!
Carolyn Beaver
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The story surprise,
and surprises again;
wonderful!!!
Alicia Catamount Warren
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I am really looking forward to experiencing Azucena again;
this is something new in art - an extraordinary experience!
Julieta Gomez de Gruenfeld
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I loved this story.
It got better and better.
Finally I wanted for it to never end.
Roberta Marie Jackson
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Among the many reasons to enjoy Azucena,
is the picture it paints of life in modern rural Mexico.
Charles Holland
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I don’t know of any other literature that so vividly portrays
the immensely rich inner world of a simple country woman.
Karen Carver
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The bilingual presentation of the story is very helpful in my study of Spanish.
It is rewarding to go back and forth between the Spanish and English versions
to learn how something can be said!
Violet Indurain
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The English/Spanish presentation of this epic poem from the Third World
is remotely reminiscent of the Allen Mandelbaum translation
of Dante Aligieri's immortal Divine Comedy
Calvin Love and Becky Harris Love
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The triumph of love over utility is a rare theme for our time,
still it rings true in this sensitive and strange story about
a girl from an adobe shack who falls in love with a bull-rider.
Modern people may regard with sterile awe a woman
who, without a thought, throws her life away for love.
The security of the modern lifestyles has robbed us of the innocently experienced morsels of existence, because today we hardly dare
to thoughtlessly cast our lives after our wayward hearts.
Anna Dominguez
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This is not only an immensely engaging love story,
Azucena is an unforgettable story about love, itself
Jennifer Richards
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For its insights into the life of rural Mexico,
Azucena is a precious and valuable record.
What a unique and modern approach to literature!
this work preserves a culture in which life is immediate
and throbbing with the irresistible pang of love
as experienced by an unforgettable Mexican village girl.
In the modern world so much is being lost and so quickly
with urbanization, excessive mobility,
and the corporatization of everything cultural.
When we can no longer trace our personal involvements
in the lives around us
as members of a community and a society,
we have then lost too much
of the reality of being, the treasure of our existence.
The story of Azucena preserves and memorializes
the fragile realities of the human need to love and be loved.
Raymond Peat
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