{"product_id":"sky-burial-paperback","title":"Sky Burial - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDana Levin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Readers will find that this work carries the pulse of their darkest sorrows, in the breath of their humanity. Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Intimate and hypnotic.\"--\u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Levin has the skilled ear, magnificent tongue, and fierce mind of the truly prophetic.\"--\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Levin's work is phenomenological; it details how it feels to be an embodied consciousness making its way through the world.\"--\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Death is the new and unshakeable lens through which I see,\" writes Dana Levin about her third book, in which she confronts mortality and loss in subjects ranging from Tibetan Buddhist burial practices to Aztec human sacrifice. Shaped by dreams and \"the worms and the gods,\" these poems are a profound investigation of our inescapable fate. As Louise Glüuuml;ck has said: \"Levin's animating fury goes back deeper into our linguistic and philosophic history: to Blake's tiger, to the iron judgments of the Old Testament.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey took you in an ambulance even though you were dead, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethey took you\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eand my sister said\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy are you saving her if she is dead?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eshey shey--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCurve of sky a crescent blade.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVultures wheeling\u003cbr\u003e on thermal parapets, shunyata, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003evoid that flays--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYak butter, \u003cbr\u003e barley flour and tea: you watch him\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003emake the paste.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana Levin\u003c\/b\u003e's debut volume \u003ci\u003eIn the Surgical Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e won the prestigious APR\/Honickman First Book Prize. She teaches creative writing at the University of New Mexico and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDana Levin: Dana Levin has published two books of poetry, Wedding Day (Copper Canyon) and her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, which won the APR\/Honickman Award in 1999. She is the Russo Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico, and also teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53477401755955,"sku":"9781556593321","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/Xl83XfS01E9781556593321.webp?v=1781611892","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/sky-burial-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}