{"product_id":"orphan-paperback","title":"Orphan - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJan Heller Levi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Jan Heller Levi: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's Levi's humanity that ultimately won't let you loose, words as direct as bullets, as kisses.--Bob Holman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrphan\u003c\/i\u003e, 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--\u003ci\u003eOrphan\u003c\/i\u003e contemplates how \"we make our griefs our tools.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat Love Is\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo forsake all others.\u003cbr\u003eTo float the beloved on your back\u003cbr\u003efrom flood to land, to wrench bread\u003cbr\u003efrom the beggar's hand, snatch\u003cbr\u003ethe oxygen mask from a child's face.\u003cbr\u003eTo ransack hospitals and nursing homes\u003cbr\u003efor drugs to ease the beloved's pain, \u003cbr\u003eto stumble down 101 floors, beloved\u003cbr\u003eslung on your back, not stopping\u003cbr\u003efor the other ones in wheelchairs\u003cbr\u003ewaiting at the landing doors.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJan Heller Levi\u003c\/b\u003e's first collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eOnce I Gazed at You in Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and poems from her second collection, \u003ci\u003eSkyspeak\u003c\/i\u003e, won The Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America. She is editor of \u003ci\u003eA Muriel Rukeyser Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, served as consulting editor for the new edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJan Heller Levi's first collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eOnce I Gazed at You in Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and poems from her second collection, \u003ci\u003eSkyspeak\u003c\/i\u003e, won The Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eA Muriel Rukeyser Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, served as consulting editor for the new edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser\u003c\/i\u003e, and is currently writing the biography of Rukeyser. She is also co-editor, with Sara Miles, of \u003ci\u003eDirected by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York City with her husband, the Swiss novelist and playwright Christoph Keller, and teaches at Hunter College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 21, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701063585855,"sku":"9781938584039","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/53c153393fbbf7d38b36e23362526ae0.webp?v=1765019203","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/orphan-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}