What comforts you?

In preparation for an interview about Our Lady of Guadalupe, I re-read my children’s book The Beautiful Lady in English and Spanish editions. I also decided to explore where else I had written about her. I don’t have as good a memory about my own work as my good friend Joseph Rodríguez does.

Our Lady appears in three of my poetry collections. She speaks in “Cuarteto Mexicano,” a section of Agua Santa: Holy Water (1995); the sacristan Aunt Carmen speaks to Our Lady in Aunt Carmen’s Book of Pra...