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 startle and haunt." -- Catherine Graham.