Poetry. "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 Glück 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." "Levin's work is phenomenological; it details how it feels to be an embodied consciousness making its way through the world"—Boston Review. "Levin has the skilled ear, magnificent tongue, and fierce mind of the truly prophetic"—Rain Taxi.

Author City: SANTA FE, NM USA

Dana Levin was raised in Lancaster, California, in the Mojave Desert. She has received fellowships, grants, and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, the Vermont Arts Council, and New York University, where she received her M.F.A. Her books include SKY BURIAL (Copper Canyon Press, 2011), WEDDING DAY (Copper Canyon Press, 2005), and IN THE SURGICAL THEATRE (Copper Canyon Press, 1999), winner of 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.

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