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Once I Gazed at You in Wonder

Poems

By: Jan Heller Levi

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Alice Fulton, the judge for the 1998 Walt Whitman Award, calls Once I Gazed at You in Wonder “quite simply, the most endearing book I’ve read in some time.” Readers of this audacious and, yes, endearing collection will agree. Jan Heller Levi has said that her poems are not confessions but conversations. Here, then, are her conversations with the world. What sets Levi apart, however, is that she lets the world answer back. Difficult fathers, ineffectual mothers are forgiven; ex-lovers are blessed. Sophisticated but never jaded, this poet looks in wonder beyond the self: a cup of coffee in one of New York’s ubiquitous Greek diners can launch Levi into a meditation on truth versus compassion; a suite of elegies for her mother takes us from a hospital corridor to the studio of a television talk show where God is the guest; a poetry reading in which she shares the stage with a folk singer illustrates Levi’s gift for illuminating the absurd textures of late-twentieth-century existence. Don’t you have any happy poems? he wondered. Don’t you have any cancer songs? I asked. With the narrative drive of great fiction, the consolations of philosophy, and the rigor of art, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder marks the entrance of a much-needed new voice and vision in the conversation that is American poetry.

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0807167312

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Skyspeak

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By: Jan Heller Levi

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Skyspeak

Poems

By: Jan Heller Levi

In her much-anticipated second collection, Jan Heller Levi offers ardent, astonishing, individual poems in a trajectory that seems to suggest a story of one woman's life. But it's the realm of almost, the places of in-between - where rage and resignation, death and rebirth, the sayable and the unsayable, cannot be untwined - that Levi explores in the simultaneously harrowing and haunting Skyspeak. Here again are the delicious humor and the disarming directness - coupled with what Alice Fulton has called Levi's wicked ear - that graced her award-winning Once I Gazed at You in Wonder. Here again are poems so alive, as the author writes, it's killing me.

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Once I Gazed at You in Wonder

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Skyspeak

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By: Jan Heller Levi

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The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser

By: Janet E. Kaufman,Anne F. Herzog,Jan Heller Levi

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The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser

By: Janet E. Kaufman,Anne F. Herzog,Jan Heller Levi

Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a powerful voice against enforced silences of all kind, against the violence of war, poverty, and racism. Her eloquent poetry of witness-of the Scottsboro Nine, the Spanish Civil War, the poisoning of the Gauley Bridge laborers-split the darkness covering a shameful world. In addition to the complete texts of her twelve previously published books, this volume also features new poems discovered by the editors; Rukeyser's translations, including the first English translations of Octavio Paz's work; early work by Rukeyser not previously published in book form; and the controversial book-length poem Wake Island. An introduction by the editors traces Rukeyser's life and literary reputation and complements discerning annotations and textual notes to the poems.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822980185

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9780822980186

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Once I Gazed at You in Wonder

Once I Gazed at You in Wonder

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Once I Gazed at You in Wonder

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The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser

The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser

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