Dana Levin

Now Do You Know Where You Are

An urgent, magnetic collection of poems which attempt to understand and heal human darkness.

Poems

In the Surgical Theatre

With dreamy clarity, Dana Levin gives us a powerful sense of self in a strange and fraught landscape.

Banana Palace

Nick Montfort

David Baker

Harryette Mullen

Jennifer Scappettone

John Taylor

Philip Levine

Gary Snyder

Johanna Drucker

Bruce Bond

Curzio Malaparte

Alice Notley

Lyn Hejinian

Charles Wright

Jerome Rothenberg

Ilya Kaminsky

Rita Dove

David Huerta

Martin Woodside

Fady Joudah

Juana Adcock

Rachel Galvin

Marc Vincenz

Alan Sondheim

MARGENTO

mIEKAL aND

David Jhave Johnston

Chris Funkhouser

Brian Kim Stefans

Maria Mencia

John Cayley & Daniel C. Howe

Jim Carpenter

Sandy Baldwin

JD McClatchy

GC Waldrep

Page Hill Starzinger

Șerban Foarță

Stephanie Strickland & Ian Hatcher

Babylonians as Americans as Babylonians

Jared Pierce

A Computationally Assembled Anthology / Antologie asamblată computațional

"US" Poets Foreign Poets / Noi poeți "americani" poeți străini

"Readers will find that this work carries the pulse of their darkest sorrows, in the breath of their humanity. Highly recommended."—Library Journal "Intimate and hypnotic."—Ploughshares "Levin has the skilled ear, magnificent tongue, and fierce mind of the truly prophetic."—Rain Taxi "Levin's work is phenomenological; it details how it feels to be an embodied consciousness making its way through the world."—Boston Review "Death is the new and unshakeable lens through which I see," writes Dana Levin about her third book, in which she confronts mortality and loss in subjects ranging from Tibetan Buddhist burial practices to Aztec human sacrifice. Shaped by dreams and "the worms and the gods," these poems are a profound investigation of our inescapable fate. As Louise Glück has said: "Levin's animating fury goes back deeper into our linguistic and philosophic history: to Blake's tiger, to the iron judgments of the Old Testament." They took you in an ambulance even though you were dead, they took you and my sister said Why are you saving her if she is dead? shey shey— Curve of sky a crescent blade. Vultures wheeling on thermal parapets, shunyata, void that flays— Yak butter, barley flour and tea: you watch him make the paste. Dana Levin's debut volume In the Surgical Theatre won the prestigious APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She teaches creative writing at the University of New Mexico and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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