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Apr 29, 2008 | ISBN 9780143113942 Buy
Apr 29, 2008 | ISBN 9781440633331 Buy
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Apr 29, 2008 | ISBN 9780143113942
Apr 29, 2008 | ISBN 9781440633331
A sensuous and musical new collection from acclaimed poet Phillis Levin May Day is a work of a visionary imagination. In tones playful and celebratory, in gestures both intimate and international, Levin’s poems explore how tenderness and violence change our lives. From a flood overtaking the Prague zoo to the joy of a maypole dance, from a mural of the Trojan War in a Greek diner in New York to the “noiseless explosions” of time in the opening of a flower, these poems are rhapsodies of the senses and the intellect, disclosing new thresholds of meaning.
Phillis Levin is the author of Mr. Memory & Other Poems, Temples and Fields, The Afterimage, Mercury, and May Day, and editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. She has received the Poetry Society of AMerica’s Norma Farber First… More about Phillis Levin
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