Description: The second in a series on Poetry of the American Southwest, Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems is a collection of poems in the voices of those who inhabit the Southwest-from earliest times to the present, making this collection a fascinating history of the Southwest as seen through the eyes of its inhabitants over the centuries.
Brief description: Cindy Huyser's chapbook, Burning Number Five: Power Plant Poems, was a co-winner of the 2014 Blue Horse Press Poetry Chapbook contest. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her poetry has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies, most recently Untameable City, Blue Hole, and the anthology of the 2015 Houston Poetry Festival. Huyser co-edited the Texas Poetry Calendar from 2009 to 2014.