Although known mostly as a poet, Eunice Odio also wrote in the epistolary genre, in addition to short stories and critical essays on art and literature. Despite her solid poetic production, she has gained little public attention among the Costa Rican public and literary critics. Her poetry appears in many Costa Rican and Latin American anthologies and has been the subject of a limited number of critical articles in journals and newspapers, but few scholarly books or monographs on her work have ever been published. Alfonso Chase, a fellow Costa Rican critic, attributes this lack of critical interest to the fact that the poet openly disdained the mediocrity she perceived in her motherland and its people by calling them "Costarrisibles" (Laughable Costa Ricans). Though it may seem a contradiction, Chase also asserted that Odio "pertenece desde siempre a nuestra cultura por derecho propio" (always has belonged to our...