{"product_id":"sky-burial-9781556593321","title":"Sky Burial","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Readers will find that this work carries the pulse of their darkest sorrows, in the breath of their humanity. Highly recommended.\"—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Intimate and hypnotic.\"—\u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Levin has the skilled ear, magnificent tongue, and fierce mind of the truly prophetic.\"—\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Levin''s work is phenomenological; it details how it feels to be an embodied consciousness making its way through the world.\"—\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Death is the new and unshakeable lens through which I see,\" writes Dana Levin about her third book, in which she confronts mortality and loss in subjects ranging from Tibetan Buddhist burial practices to Aztec human sacrifice. Shaped by dreams and \"the worms and the gods,\" these poems are a profound investigation of our inescapable fate. As Louise Glück has said: \"Levin''s animating fury goes back deeper into our linguistic and philosophic history: to Blake''s tiger, to the iron judgments of the Old Testament.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey took you in an ambulance even though you were dead,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethey took you\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eand my sister said\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy are you saving her if she is dead?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     \u003ci\u003eshey shey—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCurve of sky a crescent blade.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVultures wheeling\u003cbr\u003e     on thermal parapets, shunyata,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     \u003ci\u003evoid that flays—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYak butter,\u003cbr\u003e     barley flour and tea: you watch him\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     \u003ci\u003emake the paste.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana Levin\u003c\/b\u003e''s debut volume \u003ci\u003eIn the Surgical Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e won the prestigious APR\/Honickman First Book Prize. She teaches creative writing at the University of New Mexico and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359611584855,"sku":"9781556593321","price":13.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556593321.jpg?v=1754125172","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sky-burial-9781556593321","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}