"Mora transports the reader to the heart of what it means to join in a chorus of voices, a community, a town." - Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education " Encantado is a holy book. Its honest people and voices, the affecting cadence and clarity of two languages so gently well-woven, [and] the encouraging lives of compassionate humans heal our souls. Pat Mora has given us a wondrous gift."--Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners "'[D]eparted spirits return / to Encantado as stars, / meander / down dark streets and hallways, / peer into windows .' reads the title poem in Pat Mora's collective portrait, recalling Juan Rulfo's Comala in Pedro Páramo . What we have, then, are indelible portraits of Lupe, Barbara, Señor Ortega, and Stella--to name a few--populating the town of Encantado, fictitious or not . 'in another time, in another place' but breathing fully in these indelible poems.

"--Francisco Aragón, author of Glow of Our Sweat.