Banana Palace

Dana Levin

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Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
17 January 2017

Poetry

""Images that are satisfyingly clear . . . and excitingly inexplicable."" -Robert Pinsky, Washington Post

""Intimate and hypnotic . . . whether turning her gaze inward or outward, these poems question the moral, aesthetic, and metaphysical needs that poetry exists to fill."" -Ploughshares

""Levin's work is phenomenological; it details how it feels to be an embodied consciousness making its way through the world."" -Boston Review

In her newest collection, Dana Levin uses humor, jump-cut imagery, and popular culture references in preparation for the approaching apocalypse. 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.

It was the most glorious thing I had ever seen.

Cross-section of a banana under a microscope the caption read.

I hunched around my little screen sharing a fruit no one could eat.

Dana Levin has published three books of poetry, Wedding Day (Copper Canyon), Sky Burial (Copper Canyon), and her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, 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.

By: Dana Levin
Imprint: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 141g
ISBN: 9781556595059
ISBN 10: 1556595050
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 17 January 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dana Levin: Dana Levin has published three books of poetry, Wedding Day (Copper Canyon), Sky Burial (Copper Canyon), and her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, won the APR/Honickman Award in 1999. 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.

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Banana Palace

Dana Levin

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