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Against a backdrop of Facebook, cat memes, and students searching their smartphones for a definition of the soul, Levin draws upon a culture of limited attention spans as it searches for greater spiritual meaning. The poems in Banana Palace are elliptical by design, the lines often trailing off into a white space of their own making, as if flirting with and resolving in their own isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt was the most glorious thing I had ever seen.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCross-section of a banana under a microscope\u003cbr\u003e the caption read.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI hunched around my little screen\u003cbr\u003e sharing a fruit no one could eat.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana Levin\u003c\/b\u003e has published three books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eWedding Day\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon), \u003ci\u003eSky Burial\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon), and her first book, \u003ci\u003eIn the Surgical Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e, won the APR\/Honickman Award. A teacher of poetry for over twenty years, Levin splits her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Maryville University in St. Louis, where she serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50049392279825,"sku":"CIN1556595050G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51036789539089,"sku":"NIN9781556595059","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423841616145,"sku":"CIN1556595050VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52489077424401,"sku":"NLS9781556595059","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1556595050.jpg?v=1750829449"},{"product_id":"in-the-surgical-theatre-book-dana-levin-9780966339536","title":"In the Surgical Theatre","description":"A doctor contemplates Lenin's embalmed body; two angels flank an open chest during a heart transplant; a father's anger turns into a summer thunderstorm... Each of Levin's poems is an astonishing investigation of human darkness, propelled by a sensuous syntax and a desire for healing. \u003cp\u003e\"This is the language of a prophet: Levin's art, in this book certainly, takes place in a kind of mutating day of judgment: it means to wipe a film from our eyes. It is a dare, a challenge, and, for all its considerable beauty, the opposite of the seductive...Sensuous, compassionate, violent, extravagant: what an amazing debut this is, a book of terrors and marvels.\"-Louise Gluck, from the Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana Levin\u003c\/b\u003e was raised in Lancaster, California, in the Mojave Desert. She has received fellowships, grants, and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, the Vermont Arts Council, and New York University, where she received her M.F.A. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDana 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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor her debut collection, In the Surgical Theatre, 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 Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eintimate and hyponotic.whether turning her gaze inward or outward, these poems question the moral, aesthetic, and metaphysic needs that poetry exists to fill.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--Ploughshares\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDana Levin's poems are extravagant.her mind keeps making unexpected connections and the poems push beyond convention.they surprise us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--LA Times\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImages that are satisfyingly clear.and excitingly inexplicable\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--Robert Pinsky, Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50390125510929,"sku":"CIN1556592191G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037310386449,"sku":"NIN9781556592195","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52353893728529,"sku":"NLS9781556592195","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1556592191.jpg?v=1750829438"},{"product_id":"sky-burial-book-dana-levin-9781556593321","title":"Sky Burial","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Readers will find that this work carries the pulse of their darkest sorrows, in the breath of their humanity. 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As Louise Glück has said: \"Levin's animating fury goes back deeper into our linguistic and philosophic history: to Blake's tiger, to the iron judgments of the Old Testament.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey took you in an ambulance even though you were dead,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e they took you\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eand my sister said\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy are you saving her if she is dead?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eshey shey--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCurve of sky a crescent blade.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVultures wheeling\u003cbr\u003e on thermal parapets, shunyata,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003evoid that flays--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYak butter,\u003cbr\u003e barley flour and tea: you watch him\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003emake the paste.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana Levin\u003c\/b\u003e's debut volume \u003ci\u003eIn the Surgical Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e won the prestigious APR\/Honickman First Book Prize. 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