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Dana Levin

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Dana Levin is the author of “Now Do You Know Where You Are,” a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Previous books include "Banana Palace," "Sky Burial," "Wedding Day" and "In the Surgical Theatre," which received nearly every award available to first books and emerging poets. The Los Angeles Times says of her work, "Dana Levin's poems are extravagant...her mind keeps making unexpected connections and the poems push beyond convention...they surprise us." About Sky Burial The New Yorker writes: "Sky Burial brings a wealth of rituals and lore from various strains of Buddhism, as well as Mesoamerican and other spiritual traditions, but the intensity and seriousness and openness of her investigations make Levin’s use of this material utterly her own ...more

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	Crush: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (Volume 99) (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Richard Siken, Louise Glück (foreword), Dana Levin (Goodreads Author) (introduction) 4.34 avg rating — 42,551 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Surgical Theatre 4.29 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Now Do You Know Where You Are 3.87 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance by Kaveh Akbar (Editor), Joy Harjo (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Bernardo Wade (Contributor) 4.27 avg rating — 130 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Banana Palace 3.93 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sky Burial 4.07 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great by Camille T. Dungy (Editor), Curtis Bauer (Goodreads Author), Brian Turner (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wedding Day 4.23 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master by Dana Levin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adele Elise Wiliams (Editor) 4.88 avg rating — 24 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry Volume Clxxxviii No. 3 by Dana Levin (Goodreads Author), Clive James, Adam Zagajewski 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dana liked Maia Gibson's review of Now Do You Know Where You Are: "Beautiful, vulnerable, such interesting, varied structure. 12/10 no notes."
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Dana liked Matt's review of Banana Palace: "I read this one right after Walker-Figueroa's Philomath, and both books experiment a lot with form, long poems that sometimes don't feel a lot like poems-- this is especially the case with Levin's book, where there are sections that feel a lot closer" Read more of this review »
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Dana liked Taylor Franson-Thiel's review of In the Surgical Theatre: "Louise Glück has described Levin as “extraordinary…with a demanding intelligence” and I don’t know if there are truer words to describe IN THE SURGICAL THEATER. this book is a tour de force, weaved with light and a consistent sense of tension. Stunni" Read more of this review »
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Dana liked Holly's review of In the Surgical Theatre: "This is just criminally underrated — and for a debut, no less! These poems are bizarre, blatant, brutal — but also beautiful, bold, and brilliant. Levin navigates the body, home, and world with a deftness that would be admirable from a more tenured p" Read more of this review »
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