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ANDE- INSTRUCTIONS FOR WALKING ON WATER- 2000 winner of the Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize. 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, and her book pure magic, poems that discover glory in the dirt of our days, transcendence in the stony creekbeds, angels splashing in the community swimming pool, heaven and Nirvana blossoming here, right before our eyes. -- David Citino