Reviews for Epistles from the Planet Photosynthesis
by Mary Adams (poems)

"Mary Adams' voice leaps out of these poems like a live wire. . . . Read Mary Adams for direct action, her ability to pour strong feelings into simple language." -- Charlotte Observer

"Mary Adams does what every good poet must: makes the familiar strange and melancholy and shot through with glints of joyousness, and brings the strange up close. There we can see the unexpected branchings of emotion even through the circuits of the computer and her longing for distant worlds. Technically skillful and marvelously attentive to the nearly invisible, Mary Adams is one of the most original poets I’ve read in a long time."— Rosellen Brown

"Mary Adams transmutes her precursors—Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery—into something rich and strange in this splendid first book of earthly displays and discoveries."— Edward Hirsch

"Adams plays within traditional form, not outside it. In her debut collection she experiments with sonnets, blank verse, sestinas and villanelles, and bounces graciously back and forth between expression and humor." - Foreword Magazine

"[S]urely one of the most intriguing of any poetry collection in the past several years. . . . poems that leave us wide awake and listening." - Asheville Citizen Times

"She has a command of language, waxing with words like 'trialogue' and '“rhinoceran.' And like the astronomer who searches for worlds beyond her own, these poems search for a place beyond earthly experience." - Smoky Mountain News