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Paperback. Condición: Good. Praise for Jan Heller Levi: It's Levi's humanity that ultimately won't let you loose, words as direct as bullets, as kisses.--Bob HolmanOrphan, Jan Heller Levi's new collection, is an unabashed confrontation with loneliness, otherness, and abandonment. These poems--ancient, immediate, serene, disgruntled, wickedly humorous, unsettlingly earnest--are also daring explorations of what love is. In the new millennium, with so much loss to mourn--and so much more still to lose--Orphan contemplates how we make our griefs our tools.What Love IsTo forsake all others.To float the beloved on your backfrom flood to land, to wrench breadfrom the beggar's hand, snatchthe oxygen mask from a child's face.To ransack hospitals and nursing homesfor drugs to ease the beloved's pain, to stumble down 101 floors, belovedslung on your back, not stoppingfor the other ones in wheelchairswaiting at the landing doors.Jan Heller Levi's first collection of poems, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and poems from her second collection, Skyspeak, won The Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America. She is editor of A Muriel Rukeyser Reader, served as consulting editor for the new edition of The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, and is currently writing the biography of Rukeyser. She lives in New York City with her husband, the Swiss novelist and playwright Christoph Keller, and teaches at Hunter College.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. Praise for Jan Heller Levi: It's Levi's humanity that ultimately won't let you loose, words as direct as bullets, as kisses.--Bob HolmanOrphan, Jan Heller Levi's new collection, is an unabashed confrontation with loneliness, otherness, and abandonment. These poems--ancient, immediate, serene, disgruntled, wickedly humorous, unsettlingly earnest--are also daring explorations of what love is. In the new millennium, with so much loss to mourn--and so much more still to lose--Orphan contemplates how we make our griefs our tools.What Love IsTo forsake all others.To float the beloved on your backfrom flood to land, to wrench breadfrom the beggar's hand, snatchthe oxygen mask from a child's face.To ransack hospitals and nursing homesfor drugs to ease the beloved's pain, to stumble down 101 floors, belovedslung on your back, not stoppingfor the other ones in wheelchairswaiting at the landing doors.Jan Heller Levi's first collection of poems, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and poems from her second collection, Skyspeak, won The Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America. She is editor of A Muriel Rukeyser Reader, served as consulting editor for the new edition of The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, and is currently writing the biography of Rukeyser. She lives in New York City with her husband, the Swiss novelist and playwright Christoph Keller, and teaches at Hunter College.…

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Hardback. Condición: Very Good. This collection of poetry gives voices to difficult fathers, ineffectual mothers, and ex-lovers. The author seeks to illuminate the absurd textures of late 20th-century existence.

Hardback. Condición: Good. This collection of poetry gives voices to difficult fathers, ineffectual mothers, and ex-lovers. The author seeks to illuminate the absurd textures of late 20th-century existence.

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A Muriel Rukeyser Reader gathers a generous selection of poetry and prose spanning the forty-five years of Rukeyser's writing life. Bringing together works only sparsely anthologized or long out of print, this book is a resource for understanding the range, depth, and originality of this pioneering writer whom the poet Anne Sexton named 'Muriel, mother of everyone.'. …

Paperback. Condición: Good. A Muriel Rukeyser Reader gathers a generous selection of poetry and prose spanning the forty-five years of Rukeyser's writing life. Bringing together works only sparsely anthologized or long out of print, this book is a resource for understanding the range, depth, and originality of this pioneering writer whom the poet Anne Sexton named 'Muriel, mother of everyone.'.…

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Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. AE - A first edition hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some light shelf wear. Winner of the 1998 Walt Whitman Award of The Academy of American Poets. 9.25"x5.75", 90 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. This collection of poetry gives voices to difficult fathers, ineffectual mothers, and ex-lovers. The author seeks to illuminate the absurd textures of late 20th-century existence.

Hardback. Condición: Good. This collection of poetry gives voices to difficult fathers, ineffectual mothers, and ex-lovers. The author seeks to illuminate the absurd textures of late 20th-century existence.

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. June Jordan was not the blacksmith's daughter. June Jordan was the blacksmith. . . . She never waited around, not for anyone's permission, to write or act or be. . . . For this book to have its birth now, in the lopsided moment when we need it most, is no chance occurrence. This great woman blacksmith is still sweetly hammering us on. --Nikky FinneyPoet, activist, and essayist June Jordan is a prolific, significant American writer who pushed the limits of political vision and moral witness, traversing a career of over forty years. With poetry, prose, letters, and more, this reader is a key resource for understanding the scope, complexity, and novelty of this pioneering Black American writer.From Poem about Police Violence: Tell me somethingwhat you think would happen ifeverytime they kill a black boythen we kill a copeverytime they kill a black manthen we kill a copyou think the accident rate would lowersubsequently? . .I lose consciousness of ugly bestial rabidand repetitive affront as when they tell me18 cops in order to subdue one man18 strangled him to death in the ensuing scuffle (don'tyou idolize the diction of the powerful: subdue andscuffle my oh my) and that the murderthat the killing of Arthur Miller on a Brooklynstreet was just a justifiable accident again(again)People been having accidents all over the globeso long like that I reckon that the onlysuitable insurance is a gun.…