The Song of It: A Travelogue of Norteño, poems and personal stories

Reading Stewart Warren’s new book, The Song of It, I suddenly realized how thirsty I have been! I was indeed in the presence of poetry, magnificent poetry (and prose) that comes out of the wild heart of the world—a world which we can only enter as lovers, and with “our hats in our hands,” a world that curls itself around us, but that we rarely see. Those moments when you do wake to it, Warren assures us, “You are standing/in the center of time/and everything you touch/will take you home.” --James Tipton, author of Letters from a Stranger and All the Horses of Heaven