"A polished poet of extraordinary skill.... Levine is caught between wholehearted love of the world's beauty and sorrow at its unavoidable misery and suffering." -- Library Journal With an astonishing grasp of language and detail, Julia Levine enacts a visceral, lyric experience that slips wildly b
Small disasters seen in sunlight: poems
โ Scribed by Julia B. Levine
- Publisher
- LSU Press;Louisiana State University Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 32 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
"A polished poet of extraordinary skill...Levine is caught between wholehearted love of the world's beauty and sorrow at its unavoidable misery and suffering." โ Library Journal
With an astonishing grasp of language and detail, Julia Levine enacts a visceral, lyric experience that slips wildly between and within tragedy and grace. In Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight , her fourth collection, Levine offers far-ranging subjects, including poems about a friend's suicide and the poet's own interactions with traumatized children, as well as a series of revision poems that question the imagination's infinite possibilities for creation. In Strolling in Late April , a woman with dementia wanders in a park filled with springtime beauty, while in Tahoe Wetlands , the speaker recalls a rape at gunpoint through the merciful distance of time.
At times humorous, ironic, and even redemptive, these poems are infused with lush images of the natural and physical...
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