On Alissa Valles

What I find unusual in Alissa Valles's poems is a very strong expression of intellectual passion invested into the historical—or strictly personal—world. Her poetry is coming close to a kind of a "dynamic wisdom" maybe best exemplified in poems like "Two Gods."

I think there's an exceptional promise in her work, in her spiritual energy. She's interestingly different from her peers. I do trust in her talent and I do recommend her poems.

—Adam Zagajewski, author of numerous books of poetry and memoir, most recently Without End: New and Selected Poems and Another Beauty. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.