"Readers will find that this work carries the pulse of their darkest sorrows, in the breath of their humanity.
About the Author: Dana Levin: Dana Levin has published two books of poetry, Wedding Day (Copper Canyon) and her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, which won the APR/Honickman Award in 1999.
96 Pages
Poetry, American
Description
About the Book
After suffering three deaths in her family, Levin was prompted to write Sky Burial
Book Synopsis
"Readers will find that this work carries the pulse of their darkest sorrows, in the breath of their humanity. Highly recommended."--Library Journal
"Intimate and hypnotic."--Ploughshares
"Levin has the skilled ear, magnificent tongue, and fierce mind of the truly prophetic."--Rain Taxi
"Levin's work is phenomenological; it details how it feels to be an embodied consciousness making its way through the world."--Boston Review
"Death is the new and unshakeable lens through which I see," writes Dana Levin about her third book, in which she confronts mortality and loss in subjects ranging from Tibetan Buddhist burial practices to Aztec human sacrifice. Shaped by dreams and "the worms and the gods," these poems are a profound investigation of our inescapable fate. As Louise Glüuuml;ck 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."
They took you in an ambulance even though you were dead,
they took you
and my sister said
Why are you saving her if she is dead?
shey shey--
Curve of sky a crescent blade.
Vultures wheeling on thermal parapets, shunyata,
void that flays--
Yak butter, barley flour and tea: you watch him
make the paste.
Dana Levin's debut volume In the Surgical Theatre won the prestigious APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She teaches creative writing at the University of New Mexico and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Review Quotes
"Sky Burial brings a wealth of ritual and lore from various strains of Buddhism, as well as Mesoamerican and other spiritual traditions, all explained in ample, helpful notes that distinguish yamas from thangkas, and so on...the intensity and seriousness and openness of her investigations make [Dana] Levin's use of this material utterly her own, and utterly riveting."--The New Yorker
"Sky Burial brings a wealth of ritual and lore from various strains of Buddhism, as well as Mesoamerican and other spiritual traditions, all explained in ample, helpful notes that distinguish yamas from thangkas, and so on...the intensity and seriousness and openness of her investigations make [Dana] Levin's use of this material utterly her own, and utterly riveting."--The New Yorker
About the Author
Dana Levin: Dana Levin has published two books of poetry, Wedding Day (Copper Canyon) and her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, which won the APR/Honickman Award in 1999. She is the Russo Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico, and also teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .4 Inches (D)
Weight: .3 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 96
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Dana Levin
Language: English
Street Date: March 15, 2011
TCIN: 1006092141
UPC: 9781556593321
Item Number (DPCI): 247-26-5143
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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