Reliquary: Poems - Tapa blanda

Jan Lee Ande has created a steady, contemplative and sometimes playful voice, often melding the factual and the fanciful, the hallowed and the sensual. These poems bring new perspectives to the commonplace - a stone, an avocado, a sea urchin - and a celebration to the mysteries of human experience.

JAN LEE ANDE's first book, Instructions for Walking on Water, won the 2000 Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press. Her poems appear in New Letters, Image, Nimrod, Notre Dame Review, Mississippi Review, Poetry International and the anthologies Place of Passage (Story Line Press) and Jubilation (Beat Books). She teaches poetry, poetics, and history of religions at Union Institute & University. Ande is from the Pacific Northwest.