In Sweeping Fossils nature surprises us with startling messages that are at the same time hidden and inescapable. Maria Elena B. Mahler has the rare ability to perceive these messages and to transcribe them for us in her dreamlike poetic voice. She can "write nature." Deserts and reeds, rivers and ants talk to us in these pages; they take us to the essence of who we are.

--Mariano Zaro, author of The House of Mae Rim