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by Dana Levin (Author)
- Previously selected for major prizes by Nobel prize-winning poet Louise Glück
- Levin's book are consistently well reviewed and critically-acclaimed
- Has published with Copper Canyon Press since her debut in 1999
- This particular book has many poems sparked, informed, or reshaped by the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath
- The book hinges upon the poet's move from Santa Fe to St. Louis
- Memoir hybrid: personal meditations on the body, grief, and place
- Poems about the poet's own medical and homeopathic history
- The book revolves around three key sequences: "Two Autumns, Saint Louis," "Pledge," and "Appointment"--the first two are very much poems "about" America/place post-election, and "Appointment" is very much about healing and the body
Author Biography
Dana Levin is the author of four collections of poetry. Her debut, In the Surgical Theater, was selected by Louise Glück for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. The New Yorkercalled her third book, Sky Burial (Copper Canyon), "utterly her own and utterly riveting." A Guggenheim and Rona Jaffe Fellow, Levin currently serves as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis.
Number of Pages: 96
Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN
Publication Date: April 19, 2022
