"A polished poet of extraordinary skill...Levine is caught between wholehearted love of the world's beauty and sorrow at its unavoidable misery and suffering." —Library JournalWith an astonishing grasp of language and detail, Julia Levine enacts a visceral, lyric experience that slips wildly between and within tragedy and grace. In Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight, her fourth collection, Levine offers far-ranging subjects, including poems about a friend's suicide and the poet's own interactions with traumatized children, as well as a series of revision poems that question the imagination's infinite possibilities for creation. In Strolling in Late April, a woman with dementia wanders in a park filled with springtime beauty, while in Tahoe Wetlands, the speaker recalls a rape at gunpoint through the merciful distance of time.At times humorous, ironic, and even redemptive, these poems are infused with lush images of the natural and physical...

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