1. He hopes similar attention to "Chvez Ravine" will illumine a shrouded episode in history.

2. Those familiar with Collins‘s work know that he is masterly at writing witty, accessible poems that illumine ordinary moments.

3. The key is not merely to identify terrorists, or sift for key words, but to identify critical patterns in data that illumine their motives and intentions, he wrote in a presentation at a November conference in Richland, Wash.

4. I think young women need role models of smart, ambitious women who have achieved extraordinary things, and at the same time, they have been happy successful wives and mothers." Remember that a woman of that era had to make the soap before she could wash the family‘s clothes by hand, help grow the food before she cooked it, and make the candles before she could illumine the night.

5. This insight, from a March, 1'78 dispatch, is a rare treat÷ "I seemed to know in a vague way what it was that wanted to be said, or perhaps more accurately that I myself wanted to say – it was to lament the waste and the ugliness, and in the process to say something about what poetry might do but somehow doesn‘t." Instead, comments about her writing are woven into the letters, as in this dispatch dated Christmas, 1'68÷ "In the midst of all the running around at night – which goes on even now, with the election all but forgotten, but things like the grape boycott and rent control rising up in its place – I‘m also on the biggest poetry–writing binge in my history." "Love, Amy" does little to illumine the poems, but it does offer insight into the life of a writer who had to claim her voice twice, so to speak.