Flamingo Park

“Everywhere the lyric life is pulsing up and though, and the lines keep their exquisite cadences while dancing across the grid of the meter—and sounding the unstoppable note in Jim’s clarinet! The sexiness of the poems, and the tender acknowledgements of time, alas, are all so very moving. I especially loved . . . poems about being Jewish, and how that shows a different tonal range, and speaks to the tribal horrors resurfacing now.”

— George Kalogeris

Flamingo Park
Miriam Levine
2026

The setting is the Flamingo Park neighborhood of Miami Beach, Florida. The themes, for the most part, are love, death, joy—laughter and tears—the longstanding themes of lyric poetry.

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CONTENTS

• Christmas Day in the Park After the Poker Game

• Jim

• Too Close

• Nephew’s Birthday

• Birthdays in the Park

• They Call It Menopause

• Meeting

• My Cradles

• Let’s Go

• At the Supermarket

• Cop to It, Mim

• Whoa, Howdy

• Lipstick

• Dog Story

• Time After Time

• The Figure of the Jew: I’m It

• Zing

• With Friends Near the Fountain in the Wind

• Relief

• What Rest Is

• June Walk

• Flood and Ebb

• News for You

• Notes

• Acknowledgements
  

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