Undocumentaries

'Rosa Alcala, originally from Paterson, N.J. is a true daughter of W.C. Williams with a distinct, gutsy, and penetrating identity twining a public poeisis with her own luminous particulars. I know of no one else writing such poems that cut into and reenact the 'plebeian' with such personal force, eloquence, and skill' - (Anne Waldman).