{"product_id":"in-the-surgical-theatre-9780966339536","title":"In the Surgical Theatre","description":"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.\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana Levin\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dana Levin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.64w x 0.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780966339536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/30\/1999 pg. 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDana Levin grew up in California's Mojave Desert. Her first book won the APR\/Honickman First Book Prize and PEN\/Osterweil Award. Other awards include a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Lannan Fellowship. She was recently selected by Louise Gluck as a 2004 Witter Bynner Fellow. Levin lives and teaches in Santa Fe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40768017301619,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":15.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_25569a5d-6c70-4bff-8d42-dafdab89a9c7.jpg?v=1679665260","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/in-the-surgical-theatre-9780966339536","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}