{"product_id":"9781556595059","title":"Banana Palace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Images that are satisfyingly clear . . . and excitingly inexplicable.\" —Robert Pinsky, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Intimate and hypnotic . . . whether turning her gaze inward or outward, these poems question the moral, aesthetic, and metaphysical needs that poetry exists to fill.\" — \u003ci\u003ePloughshares \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003eIn her newest collection, Dana Levin uses humor, jump-cut imagery, and popular culture references in preparation for the approaching apocalypse. Against a backdrop of Facebook, cat memes, and students searching their smartphones for a definition of the soul, Levin draws upon a culture of limited attention spans as it searches for greater spiritual meaning. The poems in Banana Palace are elliptical by design, the lines often trailing off into a white space of their own making, as if flirting with and resolving in their own isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eIt was the most glorious thing I had ever seen.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eCross-section of a banana under a microscope\u003cbr\u003ethe caption read.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eI hunched around my little screen\u003cbr\u003esharing a fruit no one could eat.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDana Levin\u003c\/b\u003e has published three books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eWedding Day\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon), \u003ci\u003eSky Burial\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon), and her first book, \u003ci\u003eIn the Surgical Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e , won the APR\/Honickman Award. A teacher of poetry for over twenty years, Levin splits her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Maryville University in St. Louis, where she serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057238458608,"sku":"9781556595059","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556595059_p0.jpg?v=1763755973","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556595059","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}