Pura Puta receives strong press reviews

“Martínez is at her most powerful when writing about seduction,” says Amy Boaz, Taos Tempo.

“It’s the kind of book that’s getting banned in school districts where parents are afraid of BIPOC authors, teachers, and students asserting their identity as counter to the homogenized Anglo-American dream of comfortable materialism,” writes Jennifer Levin, Santa Fe New Mexican. “Often, the poems evince a categorical refusal to be silent, smaller, or diminished in any way.