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Merle Nudelman's first poetry collection, Borrowed Light, won the 2004 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Poetry. We, the Women and Borrowed Light each garnered a prize in the Arizona Authors Association Literary Contest. The He We Knew is her third volume of poems. "With lyrical concision and emotional restraint, the fierce, elegant and sometimes elegiac poems in The He We Knew speak to the joys and losses of the human heart. These are poems that...

Anticipation and awareness bud at the start of a new life and bloom with the wondrous changes that ensue. These lyrical narrative poems rejoice at the insights, emotions, and development of a new-born and her family over a brief period of years. Crafted with an artist's eye and poet's appreciation for the profound that nestles within the mundane, this collection shimmers with reverence and clarity. The trajectory of the poems shudders and shif...

Weaving together complex layers of personal and political history, this collection of poems traces a Jewish family's path from 1930s Europe to 21st-century Canada. Recalling the delicate, enduring family bonds that have held fast through war and peacetime, these poems find lyric expression for the past century's traumas, large and small.

Merle Nudelman plumbs the nuances and vagaries which define our relationships and the shifting moments of lover, abuser, victim, and healer. The imagery in We, the Women is at once startling and evocative. Poems of layered scenes of domesticity and of the natural world border on the elegiac. In this richly textured collection, Nudelman celebrates the transformative power of love and spiritual awakening.