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Among the many memorable lines in this elegant, passionate book are these: “this is what transformation looks like--/ the mess of it, the tapping at the walls of your life.” One Hundred Aspects of the Moon tends to center in the perception of a crossing, a sudden awareness that some monumental change has come upon the self. Yet the book is anything but nostalgic: everything in it struggles to accept change--or at least to see it with renewed clarity. Lowitz writes that the moon has not only a “hundred” but thousands of aspects. These poems are about the mind’s amazing ability to perceive “itself” at exactly the moment when the “self” is least stable: the moment of change. One Hundred Aspects of the Moon is a rich poetry of awareness in motion, awareness of motion. One poem asks, “What would you save if your house were burning down?” Lowitz--like Cocteau--would save “the fire.” --Jack Foley, Poet and Host of KPFA Radio’s “Cover to Cover”





"Just as the moon reflects the sun’s light, Leza Lowitz’s poetry reflects a life fully lived, illuminating transformations of various kinds. Informed by wisdom both ancient and contemporary, Eastern and Western, this book reminds us that the impulse toward creative renewal is what helps us to thrive in whatever dark corner of the psyche, or the world."--Kim Addonizio, Author of The Poet’s Companion and Tell Me





Leza Lowitz is that rare poet who stays focused in the clarity of the mind’s “now,” whether she is immersed in the natural beauty of the northern California shoreline or contemplating Old World architecture & its ghosts of sorrowing geniuses & martyred innocents. This is a woman with an exceptionally fine-tuned mind who is not afraid to listen to all the ambivalent nuances or her own thought & to share them openly, as if the reader were her best friend. Lucky we all are to have her new collection.
--Gerald Nicosia, author of Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac, and Love, California Style: Selected Poems.





Published by Printed Matter Press, Tokyo, 2005.
Available in the U.S. on www.amazon.com
Available in Japan at: http://www.imcbook.net and at http://www.printedmatterpress.com
Paperback, 120 pp
ISBN: 0-935086-36-6
U.S. $15.00, 1,500Yen