There is an intensity in Claudia's poems steeped in longing for the beloved. Sensual, ecstatic. One might feel a slight touch of Hafiz and Forugh Farrokhzad & when she weaves in some German lines, imagine Rilke's influence. The way passion flows from poem to poem it erupts in the very last 'holy love prayer' .... may I awaken: love-crazed after being touched this moment, roused by one sip of wine..... can your hear how the earth gasps