Wedding Day

Dana Levin’s second book, Wedding Day, presents a restless quest to reassemble the pieces of a dissociated life. She searches for intimate connection and meaningful communication, wondering if poetry itself can “wake the drowned out of their anviled sleep.” Poems exploring societal disjunction are mirrored by expressions of a self isolated and divided, a self that rejects easy sentiment. Evident in this collection is a mind hungry to find pattern and connection in all areas of life, yet one that refuses to be deluded by that yearning. Ranging in tone, form, and content, the poems in Wedding Day question and expand the poetic field of an emerging and singular talent.