Love Leans over the Table Larry Jaffe Her greatest passion is to

Her greatest passion is to work with and write about issues that advance

the foreign

from his novel Mudun wa Wujooh [Cities and Faces]

where the mantis hunts the cicada

alongside Music is my Mistress (Duke Ellington)

Love Leans over the Table Larry Jaffe Her greatest passion is toPassionate and affirming, the poems in this collection have at their heart an intense hunger for life, not only this side of death but after. Celebrating both human and divine love, they trace a path from personal loss to spiritual struggle and eventual epiphany, finding echoes in the vividly imagined experience of various mystics, including Rabia of Basra, John Donne and Simone Weil.