A lifelong academic and teacher, Charles Levenstein has written
poetry since the age of fifteen but was rarely published until the
year 2000. Toward the end of his career, he watched one of his
peers find comfort in projects outside the university environment.
His peer built a sailboat as a form of solace and escape.
Levenstein-never good with tools-sought a similar peace from the
pressures of teaching. He then developed sleep apnea, which kept
him awake most nights. Instead of suffering in the dark, he got up
and found his tool: the written word. He lost himself in poetry.
Some of the work was therapeutic, working through the inevitable
sorrows and losses of a long life. The Ponderous Galapagos Turtle
is the culmination of fifteen years of poetic practice. The symbol
of the turtle is one of endurance and strength. To Levenstein,
turtles may not be spectacular, but they survive-as do humans.
Certain truths embrace the human spirit in us all and rise to the
surface like a turtle taking a breath.
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