"Honey and Smoke" is a book-cantata in which words have taste, color and smell. Poetry is a river that carries the bones of tradition and memory, which go down into the earth and are resurrected on it with nuts, corn, chicory and lilac. A collection-mirror, from which the man of myth looks into the eyes of the reader."

Anna Shakel

"The poems of Maria Badia seem to have grown from our land,

filled with the voices of its trees, the smells and colors of the year's dews.

They pull deep, like water, but in this water - not only

ours here, in it - the imprints of the universe. These poems are honey for the ear, and smoke for the heart."

Olga Gronskaya