face frozen /under a concrete canopy, legs bent / toward Mecca. She lowered the tray. / I reached for a date, and my mouth / watered to taste its sugar." A yearning toward--and away from--both cultures infuses these poems, and the book as a whole, with a music I find very compelling. And uniquely American. When I was a student at Hope College, I had the honor of taking a poetry course with Susan. She was an amazingly beautiful woman, with a graceful presence and beautiful voice on paper. I bought her book to share with my high school students in a world literature class. I am saddened by her passing from our world. People like her belong here to influence others in their walk through life. Susan continues to inspire me through her poetry. She has truly left a legacy through this book of poems. That Kind of Sleep has received excellent reviews from Publishers Weekly, American Book Review, North American Review, Bloomsbury Review, Multicultural Review, St. Paul Pioneer Press, and the Star Tribune, to name a few. And this book deserves all of the praise it has received. Occasionally, a book by an Ethnic-American writer causes some difficulty for reviewers. The more myopic among us can be blinded to both its qualities and flaws by often overwhelming content. In the case of this book, the craft matches and even surpasses the subject matter. I could go on about how necessary such poems about the middle east are at