Dana Levin
Author of In the Surgical Theatre
About the Author
Dana Levin's Fifth collection is a brave and perceptive companion, walking with the reader through the disorientations of personal and collective transformation. Written between 2016 and 2020, Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how great change calls the soul out "to be a messenger-to show more record whatever wanted to stream through." Levin works in a variety of forms, calling on beloveds and ancestors, great thinkers and religions, convened by her own spun-of-light wisdom and intellectual hospitality. Balancing clear-eyed forensics of the past with vatic knowledge of the future, Levin writes: "So many bodies a soul has to press through: personal, familial, regional, national, global, planetary, cosmic- // 'Now do you know where you are?'" show less
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Works by Dana Levin
Associated Works
Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (2017) — Contributor — 69 copies, 3 reviews
The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (New Series) (2012) — Contributor — 28 copies
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- female
- Awards and honors
- Whiting Writers' Award (2005)
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I loved this book. The authors different tones in the different poems- some short and pointed and some paragraph style prose- all built into a full book. The way she weaves history and present and future present to create a full view of society and people and place really pulled this book together for me.
I really loved this collection. Though it grapples with weighty topics like the end of the world, it did so with a sense of wicked humor and an almost brutal hope. The poems are never overwhelming and the author draws from a wide variety of sources and inspiration to build on her themes. Definitely a wonderful book of poems.
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... to hear first poems about earth and sex and blood and stars, about the great focus and the dispossessed, parents, harms, and the Boot of the State, why, I thought, do any of us do any of this, because (and then verse came, such as it was):
I was here, I
lived in it, I
died in it, this shit
Paradiso --
"
-from 'For the Poets'
... to hear first poems about earth and sex and blood and stars, about the great focus and the dispossessed, parents, harms, and the Boot of the State, why, I thought, do any of us do any of this, because (and then verse came, such as it was):
I was here, I
lived in it, I
died in it, this shit
Paradiso --
"
-from 'For the Poets'
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