<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>With dreamy clarity, Dana Levin gives us a powerful sense of self in a strange and fraught landscape.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Images that are satisfyingly clear . . . and excitingly inexplicable. --Robert Pinsky, <i>Washington Post</i></p><p>Intimate and hypnotic . . . whether turning her gaze inward or outward, these poems question the moral, aesthetic, and metaphysical needs that poetry exists to fill. --<i>Ploughshares </i></p><p>Levin's work is phenomenological; it details how it feels to be an embodied consciousness making its way through the world. --<i>Boston Review</i></p><p>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.</p><p><i>It was the most glorious thing I had ever seen.</i></p><p><i>Cross-section of a banana under a microscope<br>the caption read.</i></p><p><i>I hunched around my little screen<br>sharing a fruit no one could eat.</i></p><p><b>Dana Levin</b> has published three books of poetry, <i>Wedding Day</i> (Copper Canyon), <i>Sky Burial</i> (Copper Canyon), and her first book, <i>In the Surgical Theatre</i>, won the APR/Honickman Award. A teacher of poetry for over twenty years, Levin splits her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Maryville University in St. Louis, where she serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Dana Levin: Dana Levin has published three books of poetry, Wedding Day (Copper Canyon), Sky Burial (Copper Canyon), and her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, won the APR/Honickman Award in 1999. A teacher of poetry for over twenty years, Levin splits her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Maryville University in St. Louis, where she serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence.
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