Tianguis is proud to be the exclusive distributor for Momotombo Press. Named after the volcano in Nicaragua, Momotombo Press strives to publish and promote new works in Latino literature in the chapbook format--with particular attention to those artist who have yet to publish a first full-legth book.

Browse Momotombo titles below.

Dear Jack
by Scott Inguito
with an introduction by Craig Santos Perez
$10.00

Praise for Dear Jack :

Borrowing his inciting action from Jack Spicer's own audacious correspondence with the ghost of Lorca, Scott Inguito turns what could easily be a one-note project (in many senses, really) into a chamber piece, a suite of elegant and lyric epistles. Inguito mines a rich timbre imbued with loss--'for what voice is so insinuating as that of the unhappiest'--as well as the familiar conversational tones of a garden party attendee. Shifting effortlessly between these voices, he creates a pure poetry, muscular and playful, full of reversals that never cease to disarm and charm. Spicer would be rolling over in his grave. In a good way." — D.A. Powell

Praise for Braille for the Heart:

These elegiac poems provide no consolation but they do map a landscape where splendor and desolation intertwine while "pillow-cupped loved ones advance under stone." Immediate and intimate, alternating between free verse and syllabics, the muscular syntax of these lines summon forth the "slow ache within music" that pleasures the ear and wraps the heart in black ribbon.
— Eduardo C. Corral

[W]e need writers like Vasquez who can draw us into that darkness, but help us emerge, changed, with a power that establishes and blurs the expectations of Chicano/a poetry.
— Diana Marie Delgado
from her introduction

From Here You Can Almost See the End of the Desert
by Aaron Michael Morales
with an introduction by Luis Alberto Urrea
$10.00

Praise for Aaron Morales:

"Morales seduces then abducts and we are carried away by the torrents of his endless sentences until we come up for air, gasping and astonished. This is not to say that these stories […] are prettified tales. Indeed, violence is the skin of these stories. Yet, we understand and we ache and that’s the best argument for reading fiction. So hear me and pay attention: Aaron Michael Morales is poised to startle." — Helena María Viramontes

"[Aaron Michael Morales] is a genius at putting the reader in a narrative bind before anyone knows what happened. This is subversive and sly work, as knowing in its effect as it is exciting to read. For all its thrilling nature, and for all his hard-edge style, this is a deeply moral effort. Morales wrestles with nothing less than the parameters of the human soul. Community, responsibility, even love are here, while eros, violence, fear, dread and a dark exultation fly through the nightscapes of these pieces."
— Luis Alberto Urrea

Read an interview with Aaron Michael Morales.

Praise for Malinche's Daughter:

In Malinche’s Daughter, Michelle Otero twines the intellect of a Fulbright fellow, the heart of a powerful woman, and the lyricism of a poet. This astounding debut collection of essays limns the author’s journey to Oaxaca, Mexico to guide a writer’s workshop for women survivors of sexual assault. In the process, Otero confronts the pain of her own childhood as well as cultures—north and south—which have been deaf to women’s voices. Here, Otero’s voice sings with profundity, soul, and spirit. Malinche’s Daughter will be heard, lauded, and widely read.
—Sue William Silverman
author, Because I Remember Terror Father, I Remember You

Artfully written, the stories in Malinche’s Daughter take us to Mexico and back, but it is also a trip to the past and to spaces of conflict and tension, finally coming home to that space where we are “born and re-born”
— Norma Elia Cantú
author, Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera

Read an interview with Michelle Otero

The Night Tito Trinidad KO'ed Ricardo Mayorga
by Kevin A González
with an introduction by Terrance Hayes
$10.00

Praise for The Night Tito Trinidad KO’ed Ricardo Mayorga

Kevin González is an extraordinary young poet at the beginning of a promising career. His poems are smart, funny, and extremely self-aware in a daring, provocative way. González never takes the easy way out as he deals with the complexities of his heritage—his place, or lack of place, in this strange country called America. His dazzling imagery and range of associations do not obscure the expansive heart at the center of these wonderful poems. —Jim Daniels

Read an interview with Kevin A González

Arroyo
by Lisa Gonzales
with an introduction by
Helena María Viramontes
$10.00

Praise for Arroyo:

Arroyo is a remarkable, startling little book that showcases Gonzales’ craft as a short-story writer and keeper of family tales.
—Daniel A. Olivas
Read Daniel's complete review of Arroyo online.

This triptych of Hawaiian stories blooms like tropical flowers: fiercely colored, with a trumpet's shape.  Death and violence, longing and sorrow: love here is worn close to the bone but gets released in passionate, stark songs.  "Love in the Blood" is a scintillating gem to leave a reader dazed and changed.  Lisa Gonzales writes with heart—and with a haunting and haunted soul.
—Katherine Vaz

Lisa Gonzales conjures up the internal landscape of family, of love and of a place so familiar we too come to hear and know its many voices.  This is a world often seen through the eyes of the young and still Gonzales is able to reveal this world’s complexity, its darkness and beauty through her subtle detail, through language that draws readers in and leaves them with a strong sense of knowing what cannot be said.
—M. Evelina Galang

An Interview with Lisa Gonzales