Miriam Levine’s poem, Candlewood
Read MoreMiriam Levine’s poem, Under the Magnifying Glass
Read MoreIn Saving Daylight, her fifth poetry collection, Miriam Levine connects intimately with people and places. Levine’s poems express beauty inseparable from peril.
Read MoreWith fierce and powerful writing, The Dark Opens by Miriam Levine sends her readers into a life deluged by love and loss, into people and places we have not yet known. Levine attends to the intricacies of love with unfailing tenderness, reaching into the dark yield of loss to locate the clear and concise language of reconceived faith.
Read MoreMiriam Levine gives us an eloquent novel that is an elegy to a past generation whose desire for love and tenacious battle for survival prefigure the passions of a new generation. Levine’s protagonist is European-born widower Ben Shein, a brilliant furrier reestablishing the family business in Paterson. The Sheins have come through the Great Depression and seem poised for success. But Ben’s life takes a horrifying turn. Suspenseful, driven by compassion, wisdom, and courage, this is a work from a vibrant new voice in American fiction.
Read MoreTo Miriam Levine, “devotion” implies love and self-creation; to her mother’s generation, it meant martyrdom and self-denial. The domain of this memoir is the interval between those attitudes. Devotion is the expression of a sensibility that trusts the physical―a facet of women’s existence that is at once ennobling and primary, transcendent and spiritual. Affirming her deep connection to people, Levine draws from a rich expanse of memories, misgivings, epiphanies, and associations to tell of the adventures and dangers of her emergence as a woman writer.
Read MoreA summary of themes and discussion question for Miriam Levine’s novel, In Paterson.
Read MoreA practical, entertaining, and illuminating guide to the historic homes of New England’s great writers, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Frost, and many others.
Read MoreMiriam Levine’s poem “You Have Roses.”
Read MoreMiriam Levine’s poem “For A Poem.”
Read MoreThe Graves of Delawanna is a record of trial and redemption. Miriam Levine’s impassioned poems move between the exhilaration of solitude and the poignancy of connection. These are visionary poems of the fallen world of gritty, industrial, northern New Jersey, and the silk mills of Paterson. They register the shocks of disenchantment and near-death. They also describe experiences of saving grace: unbidden, “a door of gold” appears in a vision, “molten without heat,” and somehow takes away the poet’s burden; a neighbor offers a rose, “heaps the swollen graft tip, / tenders with bent fingers.” Levine accepts the gift.
Read MoreThe poems of To Know We Are Living show super-sensitivity and resilience. Intimate expressions of connection to people and places, Miriam Levine’s lyric poems address the living and the dead: family, children, lovers, friends and admired writers. They chart the poet’s mind alive to life’s contradictions and history’s tragedy.
Read MoreExcerpts of Miriam Levine’s poem “Friends Dreaming”
Read MoreIn Saving Daylight, her fifth poetry collection, Miriam Levine connects intimately with people and places. Levine’s poems express beauty inseparable from peril.
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