Poetry. WATCHING MOTHER DISAPPEAR is a lyrical collection filled with poems of grace, intelligence, delicate feeling and wit. The long, deeply personal title poem speaks to the emotional and psychological complexities of caring for a parent suffering from Alzheimer's. The collection continues with poems that explore other relationships and experiences, engage in flights of fancy, and meditate on finite time and the precariousness of the world we now inhabit. Musical and insightful, Levi's clear voice can be heard in all she writes.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA
Toni Mergentime Levi is a poet and librettist. Her poems have appeared in anthologies and numerous journals, among them Prairie Schooner, Crosscurrents, Confrontation, Kansas Quarterly, Apalachee Quarterly, The Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, and The Word Thursdays Anthology of Poetry and Fiction. Thanksgiving, one of two operas and several other collaborations with composer Paul Alan Levi, won a Grand Prize for new opera, sponsored by the National Music Theatre Network and Seagram's. WATCHING MOTHER DISAPPEAR is her third full-length collection. Her first book of poems, For A Dancing Bear, was published by Three Mile Harbor in 1995. A native New Yorker, Ms. Levi lives in Manhattan. Her website is www.tonilevi.com.
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