“Dana Levin is the modern-day master of the em-dash.”
Dana Levin's poems are extravagant... her mind keeps making unexpected connections and the poems push beyond convention ...they surprise us.
“She writes with profound self-awareness, spinning experience into meditations on how to exist…even as the ground quakes.”
“Levin freely shares the self-doubts, false starts and dead ends of her return to poetry in this unguarded literary experiment. If this sounds emotionally risky and artistically gutsy, it is.”
“She’s good company during the days’ dark hours.”
“Frank and gorgeously crafted poems.”
Harriet Books, Poetry Foundation
“Born outside of Los Angeles and raised in the Mojave, then two decades in Santa Fe, now in middle America, St. Louis—maybe it’s right to think of her work in terms of storm clouds: if the prose is an anvil cloud, the flash of poetry at the end is lightning.”