Poetry. WHEN THE ARMS OF OUR DREAMS EMBRACE is the first major collection of Judy Katz-Levine's poems. Originally published in journals as varied as The Sun, Voices Israel and Imagine: International Chicano Poetry Journal, these poems display the full range of the depth and delicacy of this remarkable poet. "Her words move through the field of a poem's discourse like the feet of a small deer crossing a tract of brush"--Denise Levertov.

Author City: NORWOOD, MA USA

Judy Katz-Levine was born in Newark, New Jersey, into a musical family. She graduated from Simmons College. Katz-Levine audited a course at M.I.T. with Denise Levertov, who was a great influence on her work. She has published two full-length collections of poetry WHEN THE ARMS OF OUR DREAMS EMBRACE (SARU, 1991) and OCARINA (Tarsier/SARU, 2006). Her poems have appeared in The Sun, FENCE, Mother Jones, Salamander, The Plaza (Japan), Origin 2008, 96 Inc., Istanbul Literary Review, The Bitter Oleander, and myriad other magazines. She won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry, and her poem "What I Didn't Know" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.