#Dana Levin

[lifeinpoetry]

In my journal I write:

                     You’re afraid because you’re already         dead, really, when you think about it.                      And since you’re already dead, don’t you just

                     want to live—

— Dana Levin, from “Appointment,” Now Do You Know Where You Are

#quote #Dana Levin #poetry #Now Do You Know Where You Are #out of my collection #Appointment

[llovelymoonn]

favourite poems of october

joseph brodsky collected poems in english, 1972-1999: “the hawk’s cry in autumn”

natalie diaz it was the animals

ruth stone as real as life

muriel rukeyser the collected poems of muriel rukeyser: “käthe kollwitz”

naomi shihab nye grape leaves: a century of arab american poetry: “making a fist”

larry levis elegy: “elegy with a chimneysweep falling inside it”

emily berry arlene and esme

erika meitner copia: “yizker bukh”

aracelic girmay sister was the wolf

joshua beckham take it: “[dark mornings shown thy mask]”

dana levin you will never get death / out of your system

delmore schwartz summer knowledge: selected poems (1938-1958): “darkling summer, ominous dusk, rumorous rain”

matthew olzmann mountain dew commercial disguised as a love poem

ghazal (@dobaara) my anger and loneliness are lovers

nikki allen search party: names for my mother

ellora sutton (newborn)

emily skaja letter to s, hospital

benjamín naka-hasebe kingsley born year of the uma

hieu minh nguyen litany for the animals who run from me

brandy nālani mcdougall he mele aloha no ka niu

ai vice: new and selected poems: “cuba, 1962″

gig ryan civil twilight

troy osaki o heat we protest

nick carbó andalusian dawn: “directions to my imaginary childhood”

chen chen i’m not a religious person but

sally wen mao oculus: “anna may wong stars as cyborg #86″

srikanth reddy voyager: “book three: 19″

golden & when they come for me (reprise)

natalie scenters-zapico notes on my present: a contrapuntal

evan knoll blood makes the blade holy

jesús papolete meléndez hey yo! yo soy!: 40 years of nuyorician street poetry a bilinguial edition: “of a butterfly in el barrio or a stranger in paradise”

kofi

#tbr #poems #poetry #poem list #poem #poet #poets #ruth stone #muriel rukeyser #naomi shihab nye #larry levis #joshua beckham #dana levin #delmore schwartz #emily skaja #evan knoll #matthew olzmann #troy osaki #nikki allen #ellora sutton #chen chen #golden #natalie scenters-zapico #srikanth reddy #hieu minh nguyen #ai #joseph brodksy #aracelis girmay #natalie diaz #jesús papolete meléndez

[violettesiren]

Eighth Century, Mayan

You’re supposed to say shoke but I like shock.

Lady Shock.

Who drew a spiked rope through her offering tongue to burn blood into the threads of bark paper, coax a smoke― so she could froth up the Vision Snake…

Mouths. In this particular design the Snake has two. The lower

disgorges a warrior-god and the upper the ancestral general-king―

Two mouths: you’d think, two opposite positions. You’d think she faced a breaking choice: Do/Don’t Kill/ Save―

For wisdom she went to a fanged mouth, Lady Shock.

So she could answer a trick question: man or god of war―

I like how honest they were, the old tribes.

Look how she kneels in tranced adoration, the long spear pointed at her brow.

Lady Xoc by Dana Levin

#dana levin

[artgate-blog]

Dana Levin

#art #painting #drawing #art history #portrait #dana levin

[ashtrayfloors]

How to Hold the Heavy Weight of Now

She said, “You just made this gesture with your body—” and opened her arms as if she could barely fit them around an enormous ball—

“Make that shape again,” she said, and so I did. “Now let it change,” she said, and I did—

slowly closing the space between my arms, fingertips converging until they touched—

I watched my hands turn together, align pinkie-side to pinkie-side, I watched

my palms open, pushing gently forward, leading my body forward, I watched them

let a bird go, I watched my hands                make

              an offering—

—Dana Levin, from Now Do You Know Where You Are

#poetry #dana levin #now do you know where you are #recently read

[7r0773r]

Now Do You Know Where You Are by Dana Levin

A WALK IN THE PARK

To be born again, you need           an incarnation specialist—a team from the Bureau of Needles          to thread you through— Your next life          turns on an axle of light—which Plato likens          to a turning spindle—what was that?          I mean I knew

what a spindle was          from fairy tales—how it could draw blood          from a testing finger, put a kingdom to sleep—          but what did it actually do, how          did a spindle look in real life?          I didn't know. As with so many things:          there was fact and there was

         a believed-in dream . . .

Everyone had them back          in the ancient day, spindles.          When we had to weave our living-shrouds          by hand. "A slender rounded rod          with tapered ends," Google said. Plato's, so heavy with thread,          when viewed from the side, looked like a top—          though most diagrams assumed

         the hawk-lord view . . .

Moon thread, threads of the planets, earth thread.          Your thread. Everyone else's.          Nested one inside the other, a roulette          machine— If a thread could be spun from liquid light was what          I kept thinking— imagining a sluice          of electric souls between the earth-wheel's rims—          there "I”

was a piece of water, Necessity          wheeled it around—Necessity, who was married to Time,          according to the Greeks— Mother of the Fates.          Who would measure and cut your

         paradise/shithole extra life . . .

Well we all have ways of thinking about          why, metaphysically speaking,          anyone's born— though the answer's always Life's          I AM THAT I AM

                   —how it hurls and breaks!          on Death's No there                    there . . .

        —which sounded kind of Buddhist. According to the teachings we were all          each other's dream . . .

         And soon able to vanish— out of the real          without having to die, whoever's got the cash—to pay          the brainier ones to perfect          a Heaven upload—to cut the flesh-tether          and merge

         with the Cloud . . .

Well we all have ways of constructing          Paradise. To walk alone deep in thought          in a city park was mine          for several minutes, thinking about spindles.          Before the vigilance of my genderdoom

         kicked in—

And there it was, the fact          of my body— all the nerves in my scalp          and the back of my neck, alive—          How it moved through space, how close           it had strayed          toward concealing trees, my female body—          Jewish body—inside my White body—dreaming          it was bodiless

         and free . . .

         to decide: how and when and if to fill the body's hungers—          how and when and if to walk in thought through the wilderness . . .

         before Death comes with its Fascist hat.

         Its Park Murder Misogyny hat.

         Its Year Ten in a Nursing Home stink                      hat—

         However spun                      my thread.

Anyway,          it's peaceful here in the park, at midday,          if a little deserted. I've moved to the path that winds closer to the street.          Thinking again, as I always do, about body and soul. How they          infuse each other. How they hate each other.          How most people pledge allegiance to one or the other.          How painful it was! To be such a split

         creature—

***

ABOUT STAIRCASES

1 To be human is to reflect upon your position in space: on a roof it's called Seeking, in a basement Paranoia—especially with a telescope. On the leather couch, behind the blue door, in a row of doors down a long, white hallway, windows chicken-wired glass: thirty years ago I told Dr. C., I feel like I'm being haunted by my four-year-old self, I feel like I'm being haunted—inside my body. Jury-rigged staircases, one atop the other, in my psych-room construct inside-body: on the roof it's called Save Me, in the basement Don't Kill Me—up and down, the ghost-child raged. Thinking then,            Inconsolable Escher—you never wanted to climb                      the fucking stairs, ever.

2 To be human is to try to change your position in space: hide-and-seek, king-of-the-mountain, all the drugs I did to stay awake inside dreams—Elevators, the philosopher wrote, do away with the heroism of climbing; no longer is there virtue in living up near the sky. In mythology class, we dis- cuss ambition: the falling boy, his melted wings—late night dorm room pot-cloud question: how many human means of ascension? D. lost interest,           took up his guitar—                      money, beauty, talent, force.

3 Can change be achieved by contesting your position in space? The brave ones try it: climbing into trees marked for clear- cut, refusing to move to the back of the bus. What we expe- rience as conflict, the mythographer wrote, the Great Mother perceives as parts rearranging—but is harmony possible in a kingdom of ladders, where there's always a foot coming down on a neck? A poet asks: What would be a horizontal           notion of progress? (wider and wider                      rings of kindness—)

4 In a movie, a man repents murder by climbing to the top of Amazonian falls, lugging in a net his suit of armor. And when one of the priests, after hours of watching him slog through mud, lifts a machete and hacks the ropes—well it feels so true: how our liberated man tries to dive for the armor. But I'm thinking now about letting it go. About Georges Guétary in An American in Paris, singing "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise." In top hat and tails. On stairs that light up when pressed by a toe. He climbs between dancers descending in rivers, dancers who swan, diaphanous, down—once, a war was over and the stairs were lit: such           going up and down                      with flourish—

#dana levin #book quotes

[therisingfog]

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#poem #poetry #dana levin #matter

[snitnation]

(via A Poem by Dana Levin: 'Without Choice' - The Atlantic)

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[ukdamo]

A Skull

Dana Levin

is like a house           with a brain inside. Another place where eating           and thinking                      tango and spar—

At night            you lean out, releasing thought balloons.            On the roof                       someone stands ready

                      with a pin—

#skull #brain #poetry #life #vicissitudes #hostility #others #dana levin #thoughts #interior life

[love-for-carnation]

Carnations and Japanese Plate, 2008 Dana Levin (born 1969, American)

Ms. Levin has been the featured artist of numerous newspaper and magazine articles. She also is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. Her oeuvre encompasses still life, landscape, portrait, and figure painting. Levin’s work is inspired in part by Dutch 16th century paintings and French and Russian painters of the 19th century. Other painter's works and bio: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-dana-levin

#dianthus #carnation #still life #painting #women in art #Dana Levin #jug #plate #21th century art #21th century painting

[lifeinpoetry]

Each of us alone inside our bodies, each of us marooned, in the suffering exchange, while the world burns—

— Dana Levin, from “Appointment,” Now Do You Know Where You Are

#quote #Dana Levin #poetry #Now Do You Know Where You Are #out of my collection #Appointment

[loosejournal]

Ars Poetica (cocoons) by Dana Levin

Six monarch butterfly cocoons     clinging to the back of your throat—     you could feel their gold wings trembling.  You were alarmed. You felt infested.  In the downstairs bathroom of the family home,      gagging to spit them out—         and a voice saying Don’t, don’t—

#poetry #poem #dana levin

[tylerposey]

Nigel DeFriez & Ben Levin Dealing with Dana (2016)

#nigel defriez #ben levin #lgbtedit #filmedit #homoinitiative #holesrus #tvdverseedit #dealing with dana #film #gif #mine #*

[llovelymoonn]

favourite poems of january

christian wiman hard night: "the ice storm"

timothy donnelly hymn to life

randall jarrell the complete poems: "the lost world"

dana levin the living teaching

stuart dybeck brass knuckles: "the knife-sharpener's daughter"

kofi awoonor the promise of hope: new and selected poems: "lament of the silent sisters"

bruce snider ode to a dolly parton drag queen

jon pineda birthmark: "translation"

brenda shaughnessy interior with sudden joy: "dear gonglya"

franny choi hangul abecedarian

atsuro riley hutch

clark moore strikes and gutters

jenny xie eye level: "rootless"

alberto ríos the smallest muscle in the human body: "rabbits and fire"

tim seibles mosaic

anthony hecht an offering for patricia

harry matthews cool gales shall fan the glades

robert glück the word in us: lesbian and gay poetry of the next wave: "burroughs"

albert goldbarth the poem of the little house at the corner of misapprehension and marvel

george seferis collected poems (george seferis): "spring a.d."

alberto ríos a small story about the sky

sharmila voorakkara for the tattooed man

robin blaser the holy forest: collected poems of robin blaser: "the truth is laughter 10"

robert pinsky gulf music: "antique"

henri cole blackbird and wolf: "twilight"

paul violi likewise: "in praise of idleness"

ron padgett collected poems: "what are you on?"

meena alexander birthplace with buried stones: "lychees"

sara borjas decolonial self-portrait

valerie martínez absence, luminescent: "the reliquaries"

kathryn simmonds the visitations: "in the woods"

kofi

#tbr #tbr list #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #to read #poetry recs #christiam wiman #timothy donnell #randall jarrell #the complete poems #the lost world #hymn to life #the ice storm #hard night #stuart dybeck #the knife-sharpener's daughter #brass knuckles #dana levin #the living teaching #kofi awoonor #the promise of hope #the promise of hope: new and selected poems #lament of the silent sisters #january #bruce snider #ode to a dolly parton drag queen #jon pineda

[artmialma]

Dana Levin (born 1969) American

Dana Levin Art

https://www.instagram.com/danalevinart1/?hl=en

[dear-indies]

full list of biden letter 2:

Aaron Bay-Schuck Aaron Sorkin Adam & Jackie Sandler Adam Goodman Adam Levine Alan Grubman Alex Aja Alex Edelman Alexandra Shiva Ali Wentworth Alison Statter Allan Loeb Alona Tal Amy Chozick Amy Pascal Amy Schumer Amy Sherman Palladino Andrew Singer Andy Cohen Angela Robinson Anthony Russo Antonio Campos Ari Dayan Ari Greenburg Arik Kneller Aron Coleite Ashley Levinson Asif Satchu Aubrey Plaza Barbara Hershey Barry Diller Barry Levinson Barry Rosenstein Beau Flynn Behati Prinsloo Bella Thorne Ben Stiller Ben Turner Ben Winston Ben Younger Billy Crystal Blair Kohan Bob Odenkirk Bobbi Brown Bobby Kotick Brad Falchuk Brad Slater Bradley Cooper Bradley Fischer Brett Gelman Brian Grazer Bridget Everett Brooke Shields Bruna Papandrea Cameron Curtis Casey Neistat Cazzie David

Charles Roven Chelsea Handler Chloe Fineman Chris Fischer Chris Jericho Chris Rock Christian Carino Cindi Berger Claire Coffee Colleen Camp Constance Wu Courteney Cox Craig Silverstein Dame Maureen Lipman Dan Aloni Dan Rosenweig Dana Goldberg Dana Klein Daniel Palladino Danielle Bernstein Danny Cohen Danny Strong Daphne Kastner David Alan Grier David Baddiel David Bernad David Chang David Ellison David Geffen David Gilmour & David Goodman David Joseph David Kohan David Lowery David Oyelowo David Schwimmer Dawn Porter Dean Cain Deborah Lee Furness Deborah Snyder Debra Messing Diane Von Furstenberg Donny Deutsch Doug Liman Douglas Chabbott Eddy Kitsis Edgar Ramirez Eli Roth Elisabeth Shue Elizabeth Himelstein Embeth Davidtz Emma Seligman Emmanuelle Chriqui Eric Andre Erik Feig Erin Foster Eugene Levy Evan Jonigkeit Evan Winiker Ewan McGregor Francis Benhamou Francis Lawrence Fred Raskin Gabe Turner Gail Berman Gal Gadot Gary Barber Gene Stupinski Genevieve Angelson Gideon Raff Gina Gershon Grant Singer Greg Berlanti Guy Nattiv Guy Oseary Gwyneth Paltrow Hannah Fidell Hannah Graf Harlan Coben Harold Brown Harvey Keitel Henrietta Conrad Henry Winkler Holland Taylor Howard Gordon Iain Morris Imran Ahmed Inbar Lavi Isla Fisher Jack Black Jackie Sandler Jake Graf Jake Kasdan James Brolin James Corden Jamie Ray Newman Jaron Varsano Jason Biggs & Jenny Mollen Biggs Jason Blum Jason Fuchs Jason Reitman Jason Segel Jason Sudeikis JD Lifshitz Jeff Goldblum Jeff Rake Jen Joel Jeremy Piven Jerry Seinfeld Jesse Itzler Jesse Plemons Jesse Sisgold Jessica Biel Jessica Elbaum Jessica Seinfeld Jill Littman Jimmy Carr Jody Gerson

Joe Hipps Joe Quinn Joe Russo Joe Tippett Joel Fields Joey King John Landgraf John Slattery Jon Bernthal Jon Glickman Jon Hamm Jon Liebman Jonathan Baruch Jonathan Groff Jonathan Marc Sherman Jonathan Ross Jonathan Steinberg Jonathan Tisch Jonathan Tropper Jordan Peele Josh Brolin Josh Charles Josh Goldstine Josh Greenstein Josh Grode Judd Apatow Judge Judy Sheindlin Julia Garner Julia Lester Julianna Margulies Julie Greenwald Julie Rudd Juliette Lewis Justin Theroux Justin Timberlake Karen Pollock Karlie Kloss Katy Perry Kelley Lynch Kevin Kane Kevin Zegers Kirsten Dunst Kitao Sakurai KJ Steinberg Kristen Schaal Kristin Chenoweth Lana Del Rey Laura Dern Laura Pradelska Lauren Schuker Blum Laurence Mark Laurie David Lea Michele Lee Eisenberg Leo Pearlman Leslie Siebert Liev Schreiber Limor Gott Lina Esco Liz Garbus Lizanne Rosenstein Lizzie Tisch Lorraine Schwartz Lynn Harris Lyor Cohen Madonna Mandana Dayani Mara Buxbaum Marc Webb Marco Perego Maria Dizzia Mark Feuerstein Mark Foster Mark Scheinberg Mark Shedletsky Martin Short Mary Elizabeth Winstead Mathew Rosengart Matt Lucas Matt Miller Matthew Bronfman Matthew Hiltzik Matthew Weiner Matti Leshem Max Mutchnik Maya Lasry Meaghan Oppenheimer Melissa Zukerman Michael Aloni Michael Ellenberg Michael Green Michael Rapino Michael Rappaport Michael Weber Michelle Williams Mike Medavoy Mila Kunis Mimi Leder Modi Wiczyk Molly Shannon Nancy Josephson Natasha Leggero

Neil Blair Neil Druckmann Nicola Peltz Nicole Avant Nina Jacobson Noa Kirel Noa Tishby Noah Oppenheim Noah Schnapp Noreena Hertz Odeya Rush Olivia Wilde Oran Zegman Orlando Bloom Pasha Kovalev Pattie LuPone Paul & Julie Rudd Paul Haas Paul Pflug Peter Traugott Polly Sampson Rachel Riley Rafi Marmor Ram Bergman Raphael Margulies Rebecca Angelo Rebecca Mall Regina Spektor Reinaldo Marcus Green Rich Statter Richard Jenkins Richard Kind Rick Hoffman Rick Rosen Rita Ora Rob Rinder Robert Newman Roger Birnbaum Roger Green Rosie O’Donnell Ross Duffer Ryan Feldman Sacha Baron Cohen Sam Levinson Sam Trammell Sara Foster Sarah Baker Sarah Bremner Sarah Cooper Sarah Paulson Sarah Treem Scott Braun Scott Braun Scott Neustadter Scott Tenley Sean Combs Seth Meyers Seth Oster Shannon Watts Shari Redstone Sharon Jackson Sharon Stone Shauna Perlman Shawn Levy Sheila Nevins Shira Haas Simon Sebag Montefiore Simon Tikhman Skylar Astin Stacey Snider Stephen Fry Steve Agee Steve Rifkind Sting & Trudie Styler Susanna Felleman Susie Arons Taika Waititi Thomas Kail Tiffany Haddish Todd Lieberman Todd Moscowitz Todd Waldman Tom Freston Tom Werner Tomer Capone Tracy Ann Oberman Trudie Styler Tyler James Williams Tyler Perry Vanessa Bayer Veronica Grazer Veronica Smiley Whitney Wolfe Herd

Will Ferrell Will Graham Yamanieka Saunders Yariv Milchan Ynon Kreiz Zack Snyder Zoe Saldana Zoey Deutch Zosia Mamet

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