American artist, calligrapher, and printmaker Lynne Avadenka took as the starting point for this book the one Hebrew poem of thousands written in medieval Jewish Spain that is attributed to a woman. The eight-line poem, “<em>Hayizkor ya’alat hahen</em>,” by the wife of Dunash ben Labrat, is translated into English as “Will Her Love Remember.” Avadenka explains, “I freely lettered the first Hebrew lines of the poem, and the shapes created from that calligraphy became the plum colored lithographs accompanying the text. The decorative vellum lacing and closure echoes the punched and laced bindings of the books from that time and place. The movement of the pages echoes the content of the poem: the lovers are separated; they will be divided, never together again.”