Description

• Previously selected for major prizes by Nobel prize-winning poet Louise Glück

• Levin’s book are consistently well reviewed and critically-acclaimed

• Has published with Copper Canyon Press since her debut in 1999

• This particular book has many poems sparked, informed, or reshaped by the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath

• The book hinges upon the poet’s move from Santa Fe to St. Louis

• Memoir hybrid: personal meditations on the body, grief, and place

• Poems about the poet’s own medical and homeopathic history

• The book revolves around three key sequences: “Two Autumns, Saint Louis,” “Pledge,” and “Appointment”—the first two are very much poems “about” America/place post-election, and “Appointment” is very much about healing and the body