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I didn’t just read this book: I carefully and fervently nestled in it.

Vivien Leigh, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe and Ingrid Bergman are just some of the acting legends given a fresh voice by Alvarez, who peels away the studio-manufactured façades to explore their inner thoughts and troubled lives. It’s a chapbook I return to again and again.

Ivy Alvarez (a highly published international poet) gives the impression that she writes wherever she is at the time, and that the potential reader could be Mexican or Irish.

Ivy Alvarez describes “the mirage of eternity between our lips”, a succulent image of unspoken desire, which also conjures her experience of that frozen moment living always between two cultures.

…thoroughly transcended the usual mode of occasional lyric and read like a murder mystery.