In the Surgical Theatre

Name: In the Surgical Theatre
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ISBN: 9780966339536

ISBN-10: 0966339533

ISBN-13: 9780966339536

Edition: 1999

Authors: Dana Levin

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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…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 10/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.90" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Lenin's Bath


Eyeless Baby


Bathhouse, 1980


Body of Magnesia


Paul, Roosevelt Island


The Nurse


The Baby on the Table


In the Surgical Theatre


Personal History


Field


Silo


Wind


Sleep


Chill Core


His Defense


Fever


Wing


Magpie


Hive


Door


The Beautiful Names


Smoke


Power


Marvelous Father


First Cradle


The Problem of Light


Movie


Banishing the Angels


Witness


The Work