Miriam Levine’s poem, “Birthdays in the Park”
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Flamingo Park is Miriam Levine’s gift to you. The setting of this online chapbook 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.
Read MoreMiriam Levine’s poem, “Christmas Day in the Park After the Poker Game”
Read MoreIn Forget about Sleep, her sixth poetry collection, Miriam Levine remembers lost lovers, friends, her beloved family, and celebrates treasured places and the near and dear still alive.
Read MoreMiriam Levine’s poem, “There Are Soft Things”
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Read MoreMiriam Levine’s poem, Stardust
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Read MoreMiriam Levine’s poem, On the Steps of the Miami Beach Cinematheque
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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.
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