Author(s): Dana Levin

Poetry | NY Times Notable 2022

Previously selected for major prizes by Nobel prize-winning poet Louise Glück

Levin’s book are consistently well reviewed and critically-acclaimed

Has published with Copper Canyon Press since her debut in 1999

This particular book has many poems sparked, informed, or reshaped by the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath

The book hinges upon the poet’s move from Santa Fe to St. Louis

Memoir hybrid: personal meditations on the body, grief, and place

Poems about the poet’s own medical and homeopathic history

The book revolves around three key sequences: “Two Autumns, Saint Louis,” “Pledge,” and “Appointment”—the first two are very much poems “about” America/place post-election, and “Appointment” is very much about healing and the body