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"Images that are satisfyingly clear . . . and excitingly inexplicable." —Robert Pinsky, Washington Post "Intimate and hypnotic . . . whether turning her gaze inward or outward, these poems question the moral, aesthetic, and metaphysical needs that poetry exists to fill." — Ploughshares "Levin's work is phenomenological; it details how it feels to be an embodied consciousness making its way through the world." — Boston Review In her newest collection, Dana Levin uses humor, jump-cut imagery, and popular culture references in preparation for the approaching apocalypse. Against a backdrop of Facebook, cat memes, and students searching their smartphones for a definition of the soul, Levin draws upon a culture of limited attention spans as it searches for greater spiritual meaning. The poems in Banana Palace are elliptical by design, the lines often trailing off into a white space of their own making, as if flirting with and resolving in their own isolation. It was the most glorious thing I had ever seen. Cross-section of a banana under a microscope the caption read. I hunched around my little screen sharing a fruit no one could eat. Dana Levin has published three books of poetry, We

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Author

Dana Levin

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press, Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781619321625

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, Literary Fiction, Poetry

Rating

3.91 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14