Jan. 2010 review by Cathleen C. Robinson of my first collection of poems, Gathering Words: Recogiendo Palabras (Bilingual Press, Arizona State University: 2008):
"You might say that María Arroyo pens poems to preach against domestic violence in her bilingual collection called Gathering Words: Recogiendo Palabras.
You would be wrong.
She is not preaching.
María Luisa Arroyo, a transplanted Puerto Rican who grew up in the North End of Springfield, is an artist blessed with the talent of finding exactly the right words and the right cadence to show what she sees and what she feels.
She shares that vision with us in her word pictures and word music. Her readers and her listeners can draw their own conclusions after experiencing the truths her poetic vision imparts.[...]"
"You might say that María Arroyo pens poems to preach against domestic violence in her bilingual collection called Gathering Words: Recogiendo Palabras.
You would be wrong.
She is not preaching.
María Luisa Arroyo, a transplanted Puerto Rican who grew up in the North End of Springfield, is an artist blessed with the talent of finding exactly the right words and the right cadence to show what she sees and what she feels.
She shares that vision with us in her word pictures and word music. Her readers and her listeners can draw their own conclusions after experiencing the truths her poetic vision imparts.[...]"