Title: Skyspeak : poems /
Authors: Levi, Jan Heller
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press,
Year: 2005
Abstract: "In her second collection, Jan Heller Levi offers ardent, individual poems in a trajectory that seems to suggest a story of one woman's life. But it's the realm of almost, the places of in-between - where rage and resignation, death and rebirth, the sayable and the unsayable, cannot be untwined - that Levi explores in the simultaneously harrowing and haunting Skyspeak. Here again are the delicious humor and the disarming directness - coupled with what Alice Fulton has called Levi's "wicked ear"--That graced her Once I Gazed at You in Wonder."--Jacket.
Contents: Poem for William J. Morehouse -- The Marvin Gaye version -- Ashes, with Phoenix -- This is not a question specific to the Netherlands -- Theory of flight : the adopted daughter's version -- That was the fall -- Lips -- Lips, again -- About lips I am not so sure -- Eyes -- Earlobes -- Tongue -- More or less eyes -- Skywatch -- Eve speaks -- Life is a basket -- What becomes of the broken-hearted -- The daily news -- Fall River historical museum : Lizzie speaking -- It started in rage -- Untitled (for the moment) -- Varanasi -- Lazarus -- Wedding party -- Anatomy lesson -- Hanging out the laundry to dry -- Anywhere or Switzerland -- The earth-stopper -- I lost my best friend to music.