“Like a photograph revealed in developing solution, beneath the secret of red light, the poetic countenance of Maciel gradually appears and is configured with great clarity in her most recent book, Sombra en plata / Shadow in Silver.”

Alan E. Smith | Sirena

“The poetry of Olivia Maciel is profound and complex, moving and tender. It speaks to us of what poetry ought to speak: love, indifference, and nostalgia. This is poetry to read in a quiet voice and meditate upon, a distinct and distinguished voice in the poetry of the Americas.”

Marjorie Agosín, author of The Light of Desire

“An outpouring of nature that makes us feel the true smoothness of the seasons, the colors, the fruits, the bodies. Olivia Maciel’s poetry is precise and profound, a motif of eroticism that is illuminated by the very rays of the sun spread upon each verse.”

Elena Poniatowska

 “Loaded with symbolism and allegorical content. . . . The search for what’s fleeting, the capture of elusive moments, the glance toward the point where these make contact with the solidity of the earth: all these elements reappear in the verses of Maciel with sufficient tenacity to convert them, or almost, into a complete poetics.”

Jorge Frisancho | ContraTiempo

“This faithful bilingual edition teems with sensual metaphor and arresting imagery.”

Salwa Jabado | Criticas