You are the Buddha, they are the Buddha, we are the Buddha! is perhaps what Luisa Igloria claims through this collection of mad and marvelous poems. Contrary to the typical blessed image, the Buddha here assumes qualities of humanness and ordinariness, inasmuch as a reader may pick up bits of themselves in some of these poems. This book is hard to let go, like a golden treasure that takes hours before it’s completely dug up from filthy ground.