Dana Levin with Diane Seuss & Jane Huffman - Now Do You Know Where You Are

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 - 7:00pm

Tuesday, April 19, 7pm CT
Left Bank Books' Facebook Live Page or YouTube Page

Left Bank Books welcomes Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis

Dana Levin,

who will discuss her highly anticipated new book of poetry,

Now Do You Know Where You Are,

on our Facebook Live Page at 7pm CT on April 19th.

Levin will be in conversation with Pulitzer Prize finalist

Diane Seuss

and editor-in-chief of Guesthouse

Jane Huffman.

Join us on our Facebook Live Page and order a SIGNED copy of

Now Do You Know Where You Are

from Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores!

Dana Levin will be signing and personalizing copies upon request!

If you would like a personalized copy, leave a note with your name in the order comments for your online pre-order. Once the book has arrived to our store, Dana will come in to sign copies available for pick up or mail out.

About our Speakers

Dana Levin is the author of four collections of poetry. Her debut, In the Surgical Theater, was selected by Louise Glück for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. The New Yorkercalled her third book, Sky Burial (Copper Canyon), "utterly her own and utterly riveting." A Guggenheim and Rona Jaffe Fellow, Levin currently serves as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis.

Diane Seuss is the author of four poetry collections, including Still Life With Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl,Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open, winner of the Juniper Prize. She lives in Michigan.

Jane Huffman's poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review (forthcoming), and elsewhere, and she was a 2019 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Jane is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is editor-in-chief of Guesthouse (www.guesthouselit.com), an online literary journal. She currently lives in Iowa City, IA and works for the Iowa Youth Writing Project.

About Now Do You Know Where You Are

Love and grief guide Dana Levin in her new book exploring an increasingly unsettling America after the 2016 election, on both national and personal levels.

Dana Levin's fifth collection is a brave and perceptive companion, walking with the reader through the disorientations of personal and collective transformation. Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how great change calls the soul out of the old lyric, "to be a messenger--to record whatever wanted to stream through." Levin works in a variety of forms, calling on beloveds and ancestors, great thinkers and religions--convened by Levin's own spun-of-light wisdom and intellectual hospitality--balancing clear-eyed forensics of the past with vatic knowledge of the future. "So many bodies a soul has to press through: personal, familial, regional, national, global, planetary, cosmic-- // 'Now do you know where you are?'"

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