Secrets in the Sand

Amnesty International is supporting this book and will market it throughout their extensive network, including a direct mail catalog. They will also act as the co-sponsor of readings and events around the country.

"Night in Juarez was a perverse mirror/Where death breathed its hollow/Trophies over the sand."Over the past decade over 350 women around the city of Juarez, Mexico, have been raped and murdered. The remains of these brutalized young women continue to be found scattered in the parched desert, vacant city lots, and roadside ditches. Others are never found. In Secrets In The Sand, Agosin through her words and images invites her readers to bear witness to the reality that the grieving families of the disappeared and murdered young women face every day. As a poet and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin has dedicated her life's work to the search for justice and human dignity.