
Orphan
Jan Heller Levi(Author)
Alice James Books (Publisher)
Published on 21. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-938584-03-9 (ISBN)
Description
"Because we like the maps, we take the trips,” Levi writes and we follow her, wholeheartedly, on this transformative journey.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
144 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-938584-03-9 (9781938584039)
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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 the 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 is also co-editor, with Sara Miles, of Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan. She lives in New York City with her husband, the Swiss novelist and playwright Christoph Keller, and teaches at Hunter College