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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?

(18)

In Trouble

(3)

Sex Is Not Important

(3)

My Father Calls Me Every Sunday Morning

(2)

Best Cup of Coffee in Town

(2)

Some Other Where

(1)

Conversation

(7)

(18)

Formal Feeling: A Sequence

(5)

Formal Feeling

(1)

A Quartz Contentment

(1)

Letting Go

(3)

Joan Called

(2)

Tuscarora

(2)

Switzerland or Somewhere

(2)

Family Happiness

(7)

III Baltimore

(12)

(20)

This Place

(2)

Get This

(3)

Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad

(1)

Moonstone

(2)

Rome

(2)

Marriage

(3)

Marriage 2

(2)

Just as That Night

(2)

Halfway

(3)

(8)

This One's for You

(1)

Waiting for This Story to End Before I Begin Another

(2)

Satisfaction

(2)

Dear One(s)

(3)

Tuscarora 2

(2)

Tuscarora 3

(2)

The Second Movement of Anything

(2)

Poem for You, Dead by Suicide

(1)

A Day

(2)

I walk back and forth in my room....

(1)

And Have It, Too

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