Jan Lee Ande
Reviews
Janet McCann
Jan Lee Ande's collection... is enlightened and enlightening Zen Christian poetry that combines precise observation with leaps of faith, hope, and love.... These poems do not deny the weight of the world, but rather attempt by various means, physical and metaphysical, to lift it...
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Sandra Alcosser
Instructions for Walking on Water is an illuminated manuscript that gives radiance to even the most humble insect. The narrator of these poems is capable of sacred play.... George Santayana said a sense of humor is a sense of proportion, and with Jan Ande's poems spiritual wisdom is celebrated exuberantly to the accompaniment of laughter's chorale.
Steve Kowit
Although in Ande's poems all things seem on the verge of flight, even in her poems about Buddhism, meditation and divination the poet remains grounded in the natural world, avoiding the pieties that are a danger to anyone who flirts with the mystical and transcendent...
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© Jan Lee Ande 2007