num_pages: 96
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."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 IntroductionDana Levin 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.
language: English
title: In the Surgical Theatre
titlecomplete: In the Surgical Theatre
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 176
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: APR/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, name: Witter Bynner Prize
category: Poetry
publisher: Copper Canyon Press