"One of the pleasures of meeting Andrea Cladis's poems is how they balance a wealth of particulars with a strong feeling for the largest of questions: what am I doing here? This linkage gives her poems both resonance and presence. The poems linger in one's mind because the poet never takes the easy way out. She writes for the crucial reason—to face up to the whole, unruly skein of being." - Baron Wormser, former Poet Laureate of Maine, author multiple poetry collection & Tom O'Vietman, educator, poetry scholar