Once I Gazed at You in Wonder: Poems
(Part of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Series)
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Book Overview
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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0807123641
ISBN13:9780807123645
Release Date:January 1999
Publisher:Louisiana State University Press
Length:90 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 9.3"
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Magnificent!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I have re-read books before, but, never have I read the same book every week for 10 weeks running. You find more in Jan's words each time you read her book. She if gifted at expressing her feelings and experiences in life.I begin to shed tears just thinking of this book-[yes,men do cry! because we love more as we get older-see the book] I plan to buy many copies to share. I dropped the author a brief note congratulating her after my 8th re-read- I should have done it sooner. I am looking forward to breaking the cycle by moving on to her next work. Buy the book!
A long-awaited masterpiece
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
For those of us who have followed her poetry over the past two decades, this book is a long-awaited reason for celebration. Heller Levi is among the best of the NY poets of the 70's and 80's, gifted with both the highest level of poetic craft and a piercingly insightful perspective on how people love.
The best poetry book of this, or any other, season.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This book of amazing poems reads like a novel - the kind you can't put down. A thrilling, funny, sad, sexy, and incredibly moving collection. A poetry book that will convince and convert all of those people who think they can't read poetry. Already the recipient of the destinguished Walt Whitman award, "Once I Gazed at You In Wonder" will surely accumulate many more. A poetry book to read and reread.
This book grooves!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This is the kind of book Oprah should recommend, really
devastating, addictive
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
A thorough immersion in the madness, flight, carnality of romance; a celebration and transcendence of the ordinary in language and vision.
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