“Luciana Erregue-Sacchi’s stunning bilingual chapbook will echo in your mind long after you finish reading it. With captivating precision, these poems invite the viewer-reader into the poet’s ‘own private cinema,’ where haunting childhood memories of the Argentinian dictatorship are montaged with tender ricordi of learning to make tortellini as a young immigrant mother in Canada. Through her ekphrastic bridging of English and Spanish, Erregue-Sacchi calls us to become participants in a transformative dialogue about our ‘rolodex of images’ and ‘broth of languages.’ Of Mothers and Madonnas is a courageous debut chapbook, standing as resistant and proud in Canadian Literature as the Argentinian ceibo flowers that grace its pages.”

—Adriana Oniță, Founder of The Polyglot