Ground Devotion

Marked by exquisite subtlety and often touching the masterful, Andrea Cote’s poetry dissolves the boundary between the outer world and the inner self, fusing both into a single, dazzling flame. A magnificent poet—stunning and profound.
—Raúl Zurita

Andrea Cote’s poetic world is overwhelmingly coherent. As a reader, you sense she’s capturing the spirit of an era—fragile, unstable, uncertain, and full of pain. It’s a prophetic vision, where the delicate thread of the personal is woven with the terrifying knots of a civilization losing its way.
—Piedad Bonnett

Where does that voice come from? Who is singing? At times a woman, at times a man who is, above all, a son... It’s the voice of someone always on the run, carrying their home on their back: caught between ruin and something beyond it. I was deeply moved by this poetic voice—grand, plural, compassionate—which insists on remembering a very dark time while remaining clear-eyed in its belief that not everything was lost. From the wreckage of her writing, she offers the most generous gift: the possibility of raising something new, of glimpsing an unwritten future.
—Giuseppe Caputo