In the Surgical Theatre

by Dana Levin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966339533
• ISBN13: 9780966339536
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.0"