You know her as the hard-hitting, in-depth journalist whose articles fill up the Amandala's pages every week. But Adele Ramos, Assistant Editor of the nation's leading paper, is also Adele Ramos, the poet who's got a rather sizeable soft spot for love poems, and from what we can tell, one heck of a love jones. She lays it bare in her new book, which features 30 new poems. But more than just "jonesing," Adele told us today the collection is a true-true love story, her story.
Adele Ramos, Poet
"If you look at everything from start to finish you realize that it sort of tells a story. It begins with creation of the Supreme Being, the first poem speaks of the perfect garden where the analogy is given of the Garden of Eden where God created man and woman. You know love originated with him and I think that as human beings naturally it is within us to love each other and so naturally the anthologist goes from that point of creation and then it jumps into the early phases where you have a young girl, in my case, starting to discover emotions, romantic emotions, or that stage you call it a 'crush,' for somebody you admire, and after that it grows."
"For me it began as really a hobby, one night it served basically as
my counselor to sit down behind my computer and do this. The process served as my counselor and I am happy to be able to share this with other people because I know that I'm not the only person who goes through these experiences. So I hope at the end of it all, I will be able to positively touch somebody else out there."
'Phases' is available at The Book Center for $10 or from Adele herself. It was self-published by through her 'Ramos Publishing' imprint. She is now working on a novel about domestic violence.
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