Review"Adams-Santos is heir to Roethke. She lingers in secret rituals, in the spirit-worlds of plants and animals, conversing in songs and codes. There is a distinct, composed wildness in her voice. She is preoccupied with solitude and its effects on the body, and you can find her, in poems, scouring a landscape for what lives there, then reaching into it." -Joanna Klink, author of Excerpts from a Secret Pr ...Full description
Review"Adams-Santos is heir to Roethke. She lingers in secret rituals, in the spirit-worlds of plants and animals, conversing in songs and codes. There is a distinct, composed wildness in her voice. She is preoccupied with solitude and its effects on the body, and you can find her, in poems, scouring a landscape for what lives there, then reaching into it." -Joanna Klink, author of Excerpts from a Secret Prophesy (Penguin Books)About the AuthorStephanie Adams-Santos is a Guatemalan-American writer, educator, and tarot reader from Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Swarm Queen's Crown (Fathom Books, 2016) and several chapbooks-Little Fugues (Sola Books, 2015) and The Sundering (Poetry Society of America, 2009), which was selected by Linda Gregg as winner of the New York Chapbook Fellowship. Adams-Santos' poems have appeared in many print and online journals and magazines, including Guernica Magazine, The Boston Review, and Orion.