Miss Plastique, the fourth full-length poetry collection by Lynn
Levin, invites the reader into a world of female bravado in which
Miss Plastique and her many selves rant, fret, joke, fall in love,
dress up, and do their hair. Poems in this collection first
appeared in Boulevard, Artful Dodge, Hunger Mountain, Connecticut
Review, Knockout, Nerve Cowboy, and other places. Lynn Levin, a
poet known for her eclecticism, humor, and range of poetic styles,
is the author of the previous poetry collections Fair Creatures of
an Hour, a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in poetry;
Imaginarium, a finalist for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year
Award; and A Few Questions about Paradise (all from Loonfeather
Press). Her craft of poetry book, Poems for the Writing: Prompts
for Poets (with Valerie Fox) is forthcoming from Texture Press in
2013. Lynn Levin is also a writer and literary translator. She has
received nine Pushcart Prize nominations, two grants from the
Leeway Foundation, and Garrison Keillor has read her work on his
radio show The Writer's Almanac. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Levin
has lived in the Philadelphia area since 1980. She is the 1999
Bucks County, Pa. poet laureate and currently teaches at Drexel
University and the University of Pennsylvania. Advance praise for
Miss Plastique: Miss Plastique is a busy girl: giving it to her
enemy in stiletto heels, giving it up to an Elvis impersonator,
thumbing a ride across Texas. She has turned from the mirror and
can't look back. She's sexy and seductive and refuses to be pinned
down; she's silk so fluid you could drink her-read her instead, but
watch she doesn't explode in your hands. -Meg Kearney, author of
Home By Now The poems in Lynn Levin's Miss Plastique hold their
tension between fantasy and devastation. -Jill Alexander Essbaum,
author of Necropolis This book is just as explosive as plastique
and packed as tightly and with the impeccable craft you'd expect
from a good detonation expert. Lynn Levin has the perfect timing
and sensitive touch of one who works with volatile materials-an
Elvis impersonator, the Beav and Eddie Haskell, Gaspara Stampa, Eve
and Lilith at Macy's. We are better for the aftershocks of this
verse. -Christopher Bursk, author of The Improbable Swervings of
Atoms
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