Lisha Adela García currently resides in Texas with her beloved four-legged children. Prayers to the Saint of Impossible Situations is her fourth poetry collection. She is widely published in various journals and been nominated for a Pushcart. She was the recipient of the San Antonio Tri-Centennial Poetry Prize. Lisha leads the Wyrdd Writers and is a Certified Poetic Medicine Practitioner. She is the Poetry Editor for Voices de la Luna - Yanaguana Literary Journal.
Lisha Adela García's poems are passionate and primal. Her vision transcends the personal, and she speaks in the voice of her community - Mexican-American immigrants whose voices are marginalized and need to be heard. These are blow-the-roof-off, burn-the-house-down poems, full of duende. At this time in our history, Prayer to the Saint of Impossible Situations is a voice that must be heard! I hope her poems find their way to many hearts and minds.
- Diane Frank, author of While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems
Prayer to the Saint of Impossible Situations brings forth "the world's choir" as powerful voices from many realms of being - personal, historical, anonymous, and ancestral - each of them stepping forth like solo singers. In this collection Lisha Adela García juxtaposes impassioned lyrics with compelling and often anguished narratives, taken from searing family situations and deep societal fissures that go back to colonialism. These poems are a profound witnessing and a kind of rescue of what has been silenced "against the white pages."
- Rebecca Seiferle, author of Wild Tongue and The Black Heralds
Lisha Adela García's newest volume of poems generates a "creation medicine" - one searing image, one leaping line, one questing poem at a time. Here is a mature poet aware that, "The between-ness of things/needs sounds of their own. That is my calling/to find the alphabet..." After all this letting go, what saves any of us? This collection seems to ask implicitly, in the face of social injustice, intractable mental health issues, and generations of familial loss. Craft a language that contains the landscape of paradox and the vastness of changing winds, is an answer embodied by these keenly witnessing poems. "I pray for mercy with each new moon."
- Cyra Sweet Dumitru, author of Elder Moon: A Memoir Told as Poems and Words Find a Way Through, Healing After my Brother's Suicide
Review :
Lisha Adela García's poems are passionate and primal. Her vision transcends the personal, and she speaks in the voice of her community - Mexican-American immigrants whose voices are marginalized and need to be heard. These are blow-the-roof-off, burn-the-house-down poems, full of duende. At this time in our history, Prayer to the Saint of Impossible Situations is a voice that must be heard! I hope her poems find their way to many hearts and minds.
- Diane Frank, author of While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems
Prayer to the Saint of Impossible Situations brings forth "the world's choir" as powerful voices from many realms of being - personal, historical, anonymous, and ancestral - each of them stepping forth like solo singers. In this collection Lisha Adela García juxtaposes impassioned lyrics with compelling and often anguished narratives, taken from searing family situations and deep societal fissures that go back to colonialism. These poems are a profound witnessing and a kind of rescue of what has been silenced "against the white pages."
- Rebecca Seiferle, author of Wild Tongue and The Black Heralds
Lisha Adela García's newest volume of poems generates a "creation medicine" - one searing image, one leaping line, one questing poem at a time. Here is a mature poet aware that, "The between-ness of things/needs sounds of their own. That is my calling/to find the alphabet..." After all this letting go, what saves any of us? This collection seems to ask implicitly, in the face of social injustice, intractable mental health issues, and generations of familial loss. Craft a language that contains the landscape of paradox and the vastness of changing winds, is an answer embodied by these keenly witnessing poems. "I pray for mercy with each new moon."
- Cyra Sweet Dumitru, author of Elder Moon: A Memoir Told as Poems and Words Find a Way Through, Healing After my Brother's Suicide
