Lin Romero's family originally lived in New York, but her father--believing Mexico would be a wholesome place to raise children--moved the family to Mexico City where the future Chicana poet was born on 15 October 1947. She received her early education at the bilingual American School Foundation. At seventeen she went to California and studied at San Francisco State University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and California State University, Los Angeles, where she graduated. At UCLA she wrote the poems included in Michael Victor Sedano's doctoral dissertation, "Chicanismo in Selected Poetry From the Chicano Movement, 1969-1972." In the epilogue of Happy Songs, Bleeding Hearts (1974), the reader learns Romero had experienced the "transient urban life of Mexico City" as well as that of Los Angeles. Roberto Sifuentes calls Romero's collection a "poetic chronicle" that presents "the last tear being dropped by a Chicano group for the indios lacandones," the Indians...