Description
Poetry. Donald Levering's eleventh poetry book, ALGONQUINS PLANTED SALMON , makes myths into poems of wonder and warning. It celebrates dancing cranes, flitting moths, and falling stars. It likewise decries river damming, coal mining, and monstrous poisonings such as at Fukushima and the sonic onslaught on dolphins. It is a book in which, "Nature is making her last stand," as she is paved over "to make way / for the passing of humans." It closes with elemental odes offering succor: a night train from the ice ages, juncos whose feet "tap out the secret of flight," gravity as circus master, an apostrophe to the wind. The majority of the 41 poems have been published in journals, such as Hiram Poetry Review, Oyez Review, Quiddity, and Water-Stone. While the free-verse voices and styles of the poem vary, there is a unified sensibility and focus on the place of humans within an evolving creation.
"Levering is original. He interprets ordinary situations with unexpected twists. Each poem is a mystery with clues and a final revelation."—Kansas City Star
"The metamorphic poems in Donald Levering's new book take us on a remarkable set of adventures."—Charles Goodrich
Author Bio
NEA Fellow Donald Levering was a Jane Kenyon Award Finalist and Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition prizewinner in 2012. He has been a Guest Poet in the Academy of American Poets online Forum. He has authored ten previous poetry books, including The Number of Names, Sweeping the Skylight, Whose Body, The Kingdom of Ignorance, Horsetail, and Outcroppings from Navajoland. An environmental and human rights activist, he lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Author City: SANTA FE, NM USA