Isbn: 9780807123645 - once i gazed at you in wonder: poems (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Zustand: As New. Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 90 pp., Winner of the 1998 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets.

hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Condition Notes: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Condition Notes: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First Printing. Clean, crisp, bright; no owners' marks; except for two short, light creases at the dust jacket's edges, as new. Winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. The author's first collection of poems, winner of the Walt Whitman award (Alice Fulton, judge.) 90 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good. 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 haveany happy poems?he wondered.Don't you have any cancer songs?P' asked.…