Girl in Cap and Gown
Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation.... The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems. Levin's fearless willingness to tackle any subject combines with her subtle intelligence to produce a rare reading experience, the moving, psychologically sophisticated and intruiguing work of a poet with both guts and craft. --Molly PeacockWith--to quote Yeats--'terrible beauty'--[Levin] unflinchingly confronts the face of violence. She knows, 'Darkness takes me/into its hive where the story can be assembled.' But there is also joy here as how we continue is through the body with its sorrows and its ecstasies. Levin offers this and so much more, in this powerful and necessary book of testaments. --Sean Thomas Dougherty