Dana Levin
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Life
She earned degrees from Pitzer College and the Creative Writing Program at New York University.
Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was chosen by Louise Gluck for the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize (Copper Canyon Press. Her second book, Wedding Day, was released in 2005 and her third, Sky Burial, in 2011. In reviewing Sky Burial, The New Yorker called it "utterly her own, and utterly riveting." the Los Angeles Times says of Levin's work, "Dana Levin's poems are extravagant...her mind keeps making unexpected connections and the poems push beyond convention...they surprise us." Her most recent book is Now Do You Know Where You Are, which was released by Copper Canyon Press in 2022.
Awards
- 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
- 2000 John C. Zacharis First Book Award
- 2003 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, In the Surgical Theatre
- 2004 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
- 2004 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress
- 2005 Whiting Award for poetry[1]
- 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry[2]
Works
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- Now Do You Know Where You Are, Copper Canyon Press, 2022
Anthologies
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References
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- ↑ Review of In the Surgical Theatre at Rain Taxi, by Melanie Figg;Review of In the Surgical Theatre at Free Verse, by Dr. Kathleen Washburn; Review of In the Surgical Theatre at Boston Review, by Reginald Shepherd.
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- ↑ Starred Review of Sky Burial at Publishers Weekly; Review of Sky Burial at Boston Review; Review of Sky Burial at The New Yorker.
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External links
- Dana Levin, poems and bio, Poetry Foundation
- Dana Levin at Poets.org
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