Poetry. Phyllis Katz's poems are crucial to us for their intrinsic beauty, for their attention to eloquent detail, and for their capacity to stir our souls. Writing after the loss of her longtime spouse, she knows how--without self-pity or--glorification--to evoke our sorrow, but both in her person and in her poems, she also epitomizes a noble resilience. As she writes at one point, 'Now she begins to open, / expand to find a new language / beyond loneliness and grief.' GHOST ORCHIDS is more than merely lovely; it is exemplary.--Sydney Lea