"Pinol: Poems by Sayra Pinto is a collection of poems that not only recreates the poet's journey from rural Honduras to the cities of the United States, but, through an ingenious structure using Mayan mythology, the book becomes an urgent archetypal journey of the human life cycle. Thus, the book itself becomes a site of transformation into, and reconciliation with, what is most necessary to live in a variegated and omnicultural world." - Kenny Fries, author of The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory