Sky Burial

“Death is the new and unshakable lens through which I see,” writes Dana Levin about Sky Burial. Levin’s harrowing third book is an urgent investigation of human impermanence that explores Tibetan Buddhist burial rites and Aztec human sacrifice while constructing a personal mythology of death, lamentation, and rebirth. In this alchemic dissection of the mourning process Levin locates the nerve where grief resides, and she makes it resonate with beauty. Sky Burial serves as a convincing testament to the intensity of one of our most exciting poets.