Of Thieves Richard Vetere, author of The Writers Afterlife, says "Maria Lisella's poems are terse, tight and sometimes brutal despite their inner beauty...These are poems by a woman who knows where she's from and where's she's been and those who read her work will be glad she decided to share that experience with us."

The poeticality of Antonio D’Alfonso’s texts … appears in the figure of the man of honesty who questions without end his place in the City and the commerce he entertains with his fellow citizens … the admission of a persistent passion that turns hearts upside down … a stubborn quest for significance … a philosopher who puts on the mask of the poet in order to better grasp the ambiguities of our world. Hughes Corriveau, Le Devoir