Praise for Jan Heller Levi:"It's Levi's humanity that ultimately won't let you loose, words as direct as bullets, as kisses."Bob Holman, Jan Heller Levis new collection, is an unabashed confrontation with loneliness, otherness, and abandonment. These poemsancient, immediate, serene, disgruntled, wickedly humorous, unsettlingly earnestare also daring explorations of what love is. In the new millennium, with so much loss to mournand so much more still to lose contemplates how we make our griefs our tools.'s first collection of poems, , won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and poems from her second collection, , won The Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America. She is editor of , served as consulting editor for the new edition of , 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.