From "Ars Poetica"
"Six monarch butterfly cocoons
clinging to the back of your throat--
you could feel their gold wings trembling. . ."
Dana Levin's singular voice and talent are unmistakable.
"Wedding Day" is Levin's quest to synthesize the public and
private, to find pattern and connection amid the disparate elements
of modern life. Relentless in her examinations, she ultimately puts
faith in poetry, believing it is the truest means--and best
chance--to bridge the chasms between soul and society. Readers will
put faith in Levin's poetry as well.
Dana Levin grew up in California's Mojave Desert. Her debut
volume, "In the Surgical Theatre," received nearly every honor
available for first books and emerging writers. Other honors
include fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the
Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, the
Rona Jaffe and Whiting Foundations. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, Levin
chairs the Creative Writing and Literature Department at College of
Santa Fe in Sante Fe, New Mexico
From Library Journal
For her debut collection, "In the Surgical Theat"re, ""Levin
(creative writing, Coll. of Santa Fe) won the 1999 American Poetry
Review/Honickman First Book Prize and the John C. Zacharis First
Book Award from Ploughshares; it's no wonder, then, that her
follow-up has been anticipated by academic scholars and poetry
lovers, who won't be disappointed. While her first work focused on
the gritty details of physical matter, often its desecration or
decay, Levin's current work offers insight into the most personal
and unspoken thoughts that can be easily overlooked: "we were
losing our bodies/ digitized salt of bytes and speed we were
becoming a powder/ light/ bicarbonate/ what we might have seen, if
we had looked." Her voice speaks to the private wars of self and
the dark violence of reflection. Readers will find that this work
carries the pulse of their darkest sorrows, in the breath of their
humanity. Highly recommended for academic and public
libraries.--April Davis, STG International, NIST, Oakotn, VA
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"intimate and hyponotic...whether turning her gaze inward or
outward, these poems question the moral, aesthetic, and metaphysic
needs that poetry exists to fill."
--Ploughshares
"Dana Levin's poems are extravagant...her mind keeps making
unexpected connections and the poems push beyond convention...they
surprise us."
--LA Times
"Images that are satisfyingly clear...and excitingly
inexplicable"
--Robert Pinsky, Washington Post
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