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"In this collection, not only are all the dead holy, but all the living as well, including ""the one-legged veteran, the toddler with doll and comb."" There are echoes of those who perished in the Holocaust and those still laboring to make a life in the modern American landscape. In Levy's tightly crafted poems, we glimpse what is both familiar and human: teachers, immigrant brides, a lost father's shirts and ties, the sidekick brother, the dying mother. The message is clear and powerful: ""You must remember."" -- John Jeffire, author of Motown Burning and Shoveling Snow in a Snowstorm Larry Levy is the best kind of writer. His poems--with their honesty and intimacy--invite you in, ask you to sit at the table, and listen to the stories you need to hear about the past that is never past, the wars that will not end, and the people who continue to love even though they are gone. Hearing his stories, you begin to wake to your own stories, your own losses and loves, and finally you want to take his hand and thank him for what he has given you. -- John Guzlowski, author of Echoes of Tattered Tongues Larry Levy has been digging deep, adding concreteness and insight to themes he chose as his own in I Would Stay Forever If I Could. In this gathering of new work, he explores his Jewish and Midwestern heritage, the strains and joys of teaching and of being a student, the resilience and vulnerability of childhood, and the ever-presence of evil in the world, from the Holocaust to our own time. Unsurprising is increased attention to the experience of aging. These poems exemplify compassion and emotional accuracy through an observing eye and craftsmanship. -- John Palen, author of Small Economies and Distant Music"

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All The Dead Are Holy is, at once, a prayer, a history, and a family album. Levy unlocks secret passages into the past and unearths the artifacts of not just an extended family but whole generations of people doing their best to be who they are in a world that often wishes they were otherwise. Delivered in skillfully wrapped packages of prosody, All the Dead Are Holy is a wide-awake walk down memory lane in the city of what it means to be fully human. - JodiAnn Stevenson, author of The Procedure and Diving Headlong Into A Cliff Of Our Own Delusion This is a touching collection of reminiscences about family and ancestry that compels us to ask Who is not my neighbor, and who remains? This book is important because today the world is questioning if strangers belong, and its pages provide a true, heartfelt answer. Lovely, lovely book. Truly timely in the important matters it forces one to consider. - Adrienne (Lewis) Wright, author of Coming Clean and Compared to This These evocative poems glow with a vitality that interweaves the personal with the collective past. They render with keen observation and fresh insight both victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust, but also portray with humor and compassion our contemporary life, where the living emerge into history. - Skip Renker, author of Sifting the Visible and Bearing the Cast Each of Levy's poems reads like a facet of an Ideal Cut diamond. Light glints and prisms throughout this collection, reflecting his signature wit and wisdom out into the world. - Michael Somers, author of Starved Levy's message sings a song of compassion and understanding, be they poems of navigating fam-ily relationships or poems that look unflinchingly at the history of the Holocaust, always asking us to remember, remember, remember. - Jeff Vande Zande, author of American Poet A good poem has three qualities: powerful imagery, perfect word choices, and engagement of the heart of the reader. The poems in Larry Levy's collection All the Dead Are Holy do just that. Evocative, engaging, and smoothly written, Mr. Levy's poems are like those wonderful rich scents in a grandmother's kitchen that you can't help but inhale as deeply as you can so you don't miss any of it. - Philip Done, author of 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny and The Ornament Box

"All The Dead Are Holy is, at once, a prayer, a history, and a family album. Levy unlocks secret passages into the past and unearths the artifacts of not just an extended family but whole generations of people doing their best to be who they are in a world that often wishes they were otherwise. Delivered in skillfully wrapped packages of prosody, All the Dead Are Holy is a wide-awake walk down memory lane in the city of what it means to be fully human. - JodiAnn Stevenson, author of The Procedure and Diving Headlong Into A Cliff Of Our Own Delusion This is a touching collection of reminiscences about family and ancestry that compels us to ask ""Who is not my neighbor, and who remains?"" This book is important because today the world is ""questioning if strangers belong,"" and its pages provide a true, heartfelt answer. Lovely, lovely book. Truly timely in the important matters it forces one to consider. - Adrienne (Lewis) Wright, author of Coming Clean and Compared to This These evocative poems glow with a vitality that interweaves the personal with the collective past. They render with keen observation and fresh insight both victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust, but also portray with humor and compassion our contemporary life, where the living emerge into history. - Skip Renker, author of Sifting the Visible and Bearing the Cast Each of Levy's poems reads like a facet of an Ideal Cut diamond. Light glints and prisms throughout this collection, reflecting his signature wit and wisdom out into the world. - Michael Somers, author of Starved Levy's message sings a song of compassion and understanding, be they poems of navigating fam-ily relationships or poems that look unflinchingly at the history of the Holocaust, always asking us to remember, remember, remember. - Jeff Vande Zande, author of American Poet A good poem has three qualities: powerful imagery, perfect word choices, and engagement of the heart of the reader. The poems in Larry Levy's collection All the Dead Are Holy do just that. Evocative, engaging, and smoothly written, Mr. Levy's poems are like those wonderful rich scents in a grandmother's kitchen that you can't help but inhale as deeply as you can so you don't miss any of it. - Philip Done, author of 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny and The Ornament Box"

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