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Suzanne Levine’s Grand Canyon Older Than Thought is a sprightly excursion through life's foibles and joys, the dark and light of the world in which the author lives with extraordinary verve, insight, and exuberance. About the book, Gray Jacobik has said, 'Suzanne Levine’s Grand Canyon Older Than Thought presents a world that’s richly various, wry, witty, lushly drawn, delightful. We travel, cavort and caper, dream and scheme along with a speaker who’s in love with life and considers whatever appears, whether standard fare or charmingly oddball, worthy of attention closely paid. Here are seasons and weathers, people and creatures, personal and social history, tradition, and happenstance wrapped in eloquence from phoneme to story. When Levine describes a group of motorcyclists pulling into a bar as 'a galactic pack of lone rangers, each rider atop his own cosmos . . .' we see in action an imagination that enlarges our vision. She plays with language boldly: its layers of meanings, possible structures, usual conventions. That makes reading this collection a true pleasure, but it’s Levine’s ever-widening gyre of scope, of capaciousness, that makes the collection most striking and luminous.” And this from Jim Finnegan: “It’s said that we live by our wits. Or perhaps, better said: By wit we can live. In any case, Suzanne Levine’s poems and prose poetry never lack wit. Wit allows her to navigate the complications and fraught passages of life. She understands that prose is just one more resource for the poet to employ. Her collection balances the serious and the heartfelt with the jaunty and the humorous. One of the pleasures of any book is getting to know the author. Suzanne Levine is good company.” Amy Bloom writes, “Suzanne Levine’s new collection is wry. Moving. Surprising. A little autumnal (in a Parisian way). Like Szymborska, Levine is a poet of consciousness, loving the world while seeing every dark and light inch of it. You can peer in Grand Canyon for a long time and be glad of it."
Suzanne Levine’s work has been published in many literary journals including Drunken Boat, Bellingham Review, Permafrost, Quiddity International Literary Journal, New Delta Review, Front Range, and in Stand Magazine in the UK. Suzanne holds an MFA from Vermont College and is co-founder with her husband Lary Bloom of Writing at the Mark Twain House, and Praiano Writers in Italy. She lives in New Haven, CT. You can visit her at www.suzannelevine.net. Click here for sample poems. |
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BOOK STATISTICS ISBN 978-1-943826-15-5 This book can be ordered from all bookstores, including Amazon.
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