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Average customer rating:

Not the "wow" I expected based on the overzealous reviews
Magnificent!
A long-awaited masterpiece
The best poetry book of this, or any other, season.
This book grooves!

Once I Gazed at You in Wonder: Poems
Jan Heller Levi
Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 080712365X

Book Description

Winner of the 1998 Walt Whitman Award of The Academy of American Poets.

Given in Memory of Eric Mathieu King

Customer Reviews:

Not the "wow" I expected based on the overzealous reviews.......2001-04-05

This is a competent book, but I have not had the kind of emotional response other reviewers have had to this.

I do have the impression that this poet would be witty and pleasant over coffee, which is a compliment to any book.

Magnificent!.......2001-04-02

I have re-read books before, but, never have I read the same book every week for 10 weeks running. You find more in Jan's words each time you read her book. She if gifted at expressing her feelings and experiences in life.I begin to shed tears just thinking of this book-[yes,men do cry! because we love more as we get older-see the book] I plan to buy many copies to share. I dropped the author a brief note congratulating her after my 8th re-read- I should have done it sooner. I am looking forward to breaking the cycle by moving on to her next work. Buy the book!

A long-awaited masterpiece.......1999-04-18

For those of us who have followed her poetry over the past two decades, this book is a long-awaited reason for celebration. Heller Levi is among the best of the NY poets of the 70's and 80's, gifted with both the highest level of poetic craft and a piercingly insightful perspective on how people love.

The best poetry book of this, or any other, season........1999-04-02

This book of amazing poems reads like a novel - the kind you can't put down. A thrilling, funny, sad, sexy, and incredibly moving collection. A poetry book that will convince and convert all of those people who think they can't read poetry. Already the recipient of the destinguished Walt Whitman award, "Once I Gazed at You In Wonder" will surely accumulate many more. A poetry book to read and reread.

This book grooves!.......1999-04-01

This is the kind of book Oprah should recommend, really

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