Jan Lee Ande
Ande's books are Reliquary (winner of the 2002 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize) published by Texas Review Press and Instructions for Walking on Water (winner of the 2000 Snyder Prize) published by Ashland Poetry Press. Her work appears in Agni, The Antioch Review, Mississippi Review, Image, Notre Dame Review, New Letters, Bellevue Literary Review, and Poetry International.
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"Jan Lee Ande gives us
poems lush with 'The sloe swarthiness of raven and crow.' She pays reverent
attention to 'all creatures tumbling under the canopy of clouds.' Her
spirit-masters are Hildegarde of Bingen, Whitman, Lorca, Rilke, but her
voice is vibrantly her own. Ande is a wonder-worker... heaven and Nirvana
blossoming here, right before our eyes."
"Jan Ande's well-crafted poems are like a fresh mountain stream that springs from ancient sources. They are animated by a deep reverence for the world, by a sense of mystic awe, by a feeling of transcendental plenitude. They put us in the presence of great mysteries."
Ande's manuscript Mystic in the Cloister is in submission.
© Jan Lee Ande 2007
