Winner of a A PEW Fellowship in the Arts Discipline Award in Poetry
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National Poetry Series finalist

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"How do we see ourselves through language, the bodies of others and our own? How can we find joy in the face of disaster? These are just some of the complex questions that drive the long awaited second book of award winning poet Harriet Levin. With -- to quote Yeats -- 'terrible beauty,' she unflinchingly confronts the face of violence. She knows, 'Darkness takes me/into its hive where the story can be assembled.' But there is also joy here as how we continue is through the body with its sorrows and its ecstasies. Levin offers this and so much more, in this powerful and necessary book of testaments."
—Sean Thomas Dougherty

"...her new collection, whose perspectives are varied but unified by intense focus, much like the eyes of bees. Hive is a word that recurs, and the nervous energy of the poems gives the reader a non-alcoholic buzz....you lose and regain yourself again."
—The Rumpus

"A good poem is one that changes how we feel about its subject; a great one, makes us want to return to the start after we have read the last line and now see what we read before from that fresh perspective. That's what this collection does!"
—Rosebud Book Reviews