Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight: Poems

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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 Journal

With 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 world. Levine’s work pries apart small places that exist within the spaces between beauty and trauma in an ordinary life. Ultimately, the poems affirm our human resilience, made possible by the presence and help of others:
carrying something of the unbearable / between us until it could be borne.