" [Alice Walker] has been constantly showing me that poetry is everywhere around us, even in the most trivial or unnoticed things, because they all share or add something to the complex and total function and sense of life. So poems--which can be not just verses but pieces of prose and reflection as well--result from the finding of a proper, personal, and effective voice that can utter in a compelling and moving way the meaningful issues that the author finds behind ordinary and obvious phenomena. "

― Manuel Garcia Verdecia