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 inve
Poems look at mortality, loss, and human impermanence through explorations of topics ranging from Tibetan Buddhist burial rites to Aztec human sacrifice.
From Ars PoeticaSix 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
"Images that are satisfyingly clear . . . and excitingly inexplicable." Robert Pinsky,Washington Post"Intimate and hypnotic . . . whether turning her gaze inward or outward, these poems
