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Adela writes poemas and cancións, myths, compressed histories, and stories. They are songs celebrating nature, the earth, artistic, familial, and even spiritual journeys, in which we experience a quest to meld together a collective existence—indigenous, modern, mestizo—between Nicaragua and the United States, between self and other, as the life of poetry sets in motion new possibilities of existence. Poems discovering a journey through linguistic and cultural migrations, mixing, and translations. “Nature on fire. Poetry / a living thing,” she writes in “Volcano Poetics.” Adela’s poems are alive, elemental, and they set us on fire, burn down the foundations of our being, to help us experience what it’s like to be alive. And to strive to live with dignity and hope, no matter how devastating the presence of change and loss. 

--Dr. Fred Arroyo

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