In the Surgical Theatre

Dana Levin

96 pages, Paperback

ISBN: 0966339533

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Language: English

Publish: October 15, 1999

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A doctor contemplates Lenin’s embalmed body; two angels flank an open chest during a heart transplant; a father’s anger turns into a summer thunderstorm… Each of Levin’s poems is an astonishing investigation of human darkness, propelled by a sensuous syntax and a desire for healing.”This is the language of a prophet: Levin’s art, in this book certainly, takes place in a kind of mutating day of judgment: it means to wipe a film from our eyes. It is a dare, a challenge, and, for all its considerable beauty, the opposite of the seductive…Sensuous, compassionate, violent, extravagant: what an amazing debut this is, a book of terrors and marvels.”-Louise Gluck, from the Introduction

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. She lives in New Mexico and teaches Creative Writing at the College of Santa Fe.

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