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The word that seems most appropriate to approach the poetry of Rowena Hill is nature, which designates that which we cannot name because it surpasses our understanding and is only represented by the beings and things that surround us. We are inseparable from it. It's in every particle of our bodies, and only the fact that we live inevitably as individuals prevents us from feeling that unity. The I stands in the way, but it can move aside in order to make possible an opening into the mystery of everything. This is a constant that makes Rowena Hill's voice an exception in the Venezuelan poetry tradition she belongs to, despite coming from far away. And thus, her poetry, so earthy, so carnal, so very rooted here and beyond, awaits the study it deserves to make it available to readers who need it. It could even happen that it changes their viewpoint, a worthwhile risk for those who are more inclined to the aesthetic than to lived experience, because it's a poetry permeated by the unknown energy that carries us like an invisible thread on which everything hangs, which we do not know, nor see, nor touch, but can glimpse. - Rafael Cadenas

Pudiera decir que No creo en la poesía -desde la progresión de los textos que lo conforman cronológicamente- delimita todo el tiempo al presente. Hace un claro alrededor de él. Hay un aquí-ahora como actitud que se enfrenta al pasado, incluso al de los recuerdos más queridos. Donde ese "yo" que, sin lugar a dudas, alguna vez se involucró y hasta quiso creer en algo es arrastrado también por esa misma fuerza destructora, retrospectiva, que provoca una colisión y empuja todo lo que fue, o pretendió ser, para reafirmarse como un "yo" actual, aun lírico a su pesar. - Reina María Rodríguez

"Barreto's work, throughout its different stages delivers a poetry in dialogue with materials outside or at the limit of the literary, which enter the poetic field without losing their singularity, implying a questioning and a rarefaction of the very idea>- Gina Saraceni.