Praise for
Ladies’ Abecedary:

Like a deck of playing cards, shuffled, fanned, dealt and swept away with a flourish, Arden Levine’s Ladies' Abecedary delights and dazzles. In this alphabetic parade, portraits of women’s lives flash past our eyes. Designated by only a letter and the “glittering shrapnel” and “high-heeled balancing acts” of Levine’s descriptions, we can’t be certain who or where or when these women live. Yet each life, each poem, feels vivid and energetic, bristling in forms that range from pantoums to prose poems. So we lean in closer to the mystery, keen to catch a fuller glimpse of each sharp life and not to miss the “twisting silver” sleight-of-hand taking place on the page.

—Kirun Kapur, author of Women in the Waiting Room, finalist for the National Poetry Series

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