She invokes a female goddess and a male god to resume a thread that comes from her first poetry collection The Blazing Lights of the Sun (Los Angeles, Sun & Moon Press, 1996). From her concern for the vegetable world and the origin of life in The Blazing Ligths of the Sun, Rosita Copioli moves to the origins of civilizations and man’s position in the order of things: from chaos to some form. –R.T.