In homage to Gloria Anzalda and her iconic workBorderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain-the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands-that Anzalda inhabited, theorized, explored, and invented.

Named for the Nahuatl word meaning "their soul,"Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldan Borderlandspresents work that is sparked from the soul: the individual soul, the communal soul. These poets interrogate, complicate, and personalize the borderlands in transgressive and transformative ways, opening new paths and revisioning old ones for the next generation of spiritual, political, and cultural border crossers.

"Within shifting bordersit is good to enter into these voice worldsto stand, bow & listen in their presence. Peoples, familias, cities, towns, rancheras and the wilderness of all border-crossers & messengers of border spaces open in these pages." From the Introduction by Juan Felipe Herrera, US Poet Laureate

Contributors include:Juan Felipe Herrera,Rodney Gomez,Daniel E. Sols y Martnez,Carmen Calatayud,ire'ne lara silva,Tara Betts,Jos Antonio Rodrguez,David Hatfield Sparks,Barbara Jane Reyes,Miguel M. Morales,Cecca Austin Ochoa,Cordelia Barrera,Oswaldo Vargas,Emmy Prez,Dan Vera,Michael Wasson,Melanie Mrquez Adams,Tomas Moniz,Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez,D.M. Chvez,Ins Hernndez-Avila,Nidia Melissa Bautista,Nadine Saliba,Monica Palacios,Jennine DOC Wright,Csar L. De Len,Nia Witherspoon,Joe Jimnez,Roy G. Guzmn,Veronica Sandoval,Juan Morales,Victor Payan,Abigail Carl-Klassen,Sarah A. Chavez,Rachel McKibbens,jo reyes-boitel,Adela Najarro,Elsie Rivas Gmez,Lupe Mendez,T. Sarmina,Shauna Osborn,Marie Varghese,Allen Baros,Alexis Pauline Gumbs,Ysabel Y. Gonzlez,Minal Hajratwala,Karla Cordero,Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo,Pablo Miguel Martnez,Barbara Brinson Curiel,Olga Garca Echeverra,Suzy de Jesus Huerta,David Bowles,John Fry,Kim Shuck