Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight: Poems

✍ Scribed by Levine, Julia B

• Book ID: 109865607
• Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 49 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780807154533

✦ 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." — 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...