Imaginarium was a finalist for ForeWord Magazine's 2005 Book of the Year Award.

Imaginarium

LEVIN, Lynn

Loonfeather Press

This book was a 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in poetry. The third collection of poems by Lynn Levin, a poet known for her eclecticism, humor, and range of poetic styles. -Loonfeather Press

Fair Creatures of an Hour

Miss Plastique was a finalist for the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Award in poetry. Miss Plastique, the fourth full-length poetry collection by Lynn Levin, invites the reader into a world of female bravado in which Miss Plastique and her many selves rant, fret, joke, fall in love, dress up, and do their hair. Poems in this collection first appeared in Boulevard, Artful Dodge, Hunger Mountain, Connecticut Review, Knockout, Nerve Cowboy, and other places.Lynn Levin, a poet known for her eclecticism, humor, and range of poetic styles, is the author of the previous poetry collections Fair Creatures of an Hour, a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in poetry; Imaginarium, a finalist for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award; and A Few Questions about Paradise (all from Loonfeather Press). Her craft of poetry book, Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets (with Valerie Fox) was published by Texture Press in 2013. Lynn Levin is also a writer and literary translator. She has received nine Pushcart Prize nominations, two grants from the Leeway Foundation, and Garrison Keillor has read her work on his radio show The Writer's Almanac. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Levin has lived in the Philadelphia area since 1980. She currently teaches at Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania. Advance praise for Miss Plastique: "Miss Plastique is a busy girl: giving it to her enemy in stiletto heels, giving it up to an Elvis impersonator, thumbing a ride across Texas. She has turned from the mirror and can't look back. She's sexy and seductive and refuses to be pinned down; she's silk so fluid you could drink her-read her instead, but watch she doesn't explode in your hands." -Meg Kearney, author of Home By Now "The poems in Lynn Levin's Miss Plastique hold their tension between fantasy and devastation." -Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Necropolis "This book is just as explosive as plastique and packed as tightly and with the impeccable craft you'd expect from a good detonation expert. Lynn Levin has the perfect timing and sensitive touch of one who works with volatile materials-an Elvis impersonator, the Beav and Eddie Haskell,Gaspara Stampa, Eve and Lilith at Macy's. We are better for the aftershocks of this verse." -Christopher Bursk, author of The Improbable Swervings of Atoms

Miss Plastique (Ragged Sky Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Ragged Sky Press

The Minor Virtues, Lynn Levin's fifth collection of poems, begins with celebrations of small everyday practices--among them, fixing broken things and buying produce from the marked-down cart--which, when fancifully contemplated, branch into deeper appreciations of life. Levin's outlook is eclectic and occasionally very funny. Her moments are not without griefs and worries, yet, in these lyrics and narratives, she addresses them with good humor, respect, and abiding affection. As Willard Spiegelman observers, Lynn Levin's "many virtues, variously presented and contained here, are more than minor. Maturity, wisdom, and wit are among them."

The Minor Virtues: Poems

From Texture Press, the second edition of POEMS FOR THE WRITING: PROMPTS FOR POETS offers 18 classroom and workshop-tested prompts, including 6 new prompts and a wealth of new example poems. Student writers, working poets, and teachers of creative writing will find this new edition from Fox and Levin to be an easy-to-use and invigorating resource. Writes Jeanne Murray Walker, "POEMS FOR THE WRITING (SECOND EDITION) is fun and it's just as versatile as a utility outfielder." According to Elaine Terranova, this book is "more than anything, a reminder that we are all as poets thirsting for new ideas and kicks in the butt to get going." New prompts include "The Song-Title Prompt" and "The Superhero Poem."

Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets (Second Edition)

Fox, Valerie

Blurb

With a deft command of comic distance and abiding compassion for her characters, Lynn Levin in House Parties, her debut collection of short fiction, presents us with a broad range of characters who ardently, foolishly, and often with weird invention, relentlessly spar with their fates.\nThree friends hike through Yosemite in search of an awe-inspiring waterfall that may or may not exist…a girl on a high-school science trip finds herself abandoned on an island inhabited by aggressive monkeys…a lonely young rabbinical student creates and animates a female form only to see her beloved creature acquire free will…overwhelmed by surveys, an office worker rebels à la Bartleby…a couple believes that a move to a friendly and sophisticated exurban neighborhood will set the stage for happy marriage.\nMany of the characters in House Parties see themselves with a certain bemused humor and strive to stay self-possessed even as they struggle against the strange and undeserved things that happen to them. At other times, the characters—sometimes successfully, sometimes not—keep trying to escape the gravity of a plight they created or a problem they refuse to resolve. In observant and generous prose, Levin writes in tones that range from the wry, witty, and hilarious to the lyrical and deeply serious.\nStories in House Parties first appeared The Saturday Evening Post, Cleaver, Per Contra, JewishFiction.net, Green Hills Literary Lantern, The Broadkill Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, Amarillo Bay, and other magazines. Several of the stories have been taught in university literature classes. Lynn Levin is the author of eight previous books: five collections of poems, a craft-of-poetry textbook, and a work of literary translation. Lynn Levin teaches at Drexel University. Her website is lynnlevinpoet.com. 
“The stories in House Parties are full of anguished souls and restless hearts, which Lynn Levin examines with the beauty and precision of a poet. I felt the spirit of Poe hovering around these tales, though the sensibility here is entirely modern and original. Levin's characters search relentlessly—for connection, meaning, even revenge—in ways I couldn’t help but recognize as lifted directly from my life. Wonderful.” 
Steve Almond, author of All the Secrets of the World 
“Lynn Levin is my favorite kind of writer—honest, specific, real, funny, but never cynical. House Parties is a collection that sees the world with perfect clarity and cherishes it all the same.” 
Megan Angelo, author of Followers 
“These crisply written, sharply observed stories have the surprising hallmark of having mostly gentle, if not outright happy, endings. The turn from dark possibility to lighter conclusion is a welcome relief in our difficult times. Levin affirms something basically positive about the human condition.” 
Paula Marantz Cohen, author of Talking Cure: An Essay on the Civilizing Power of Conversation

House Parties

Literary

Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

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