Falcons by Michael H. Levin

$14.99

 

One thread of these poems bears witness to the pains and the joys, the tragedies and the comedies, of our season as Americans in a troubled world that we did so much to create.  Another bears witness to personal love and loss.  Together they weave a resonant fugue.

–William A. Nitze, Independent Energy/Technology Investor; former Assistant Administrator for International Activities, US EPA (Washington DC)

 

Rarely have intelligence and musicality entwined to create such meticulous poetry.  Like its closing poem, “Trinity,” this book is a Promethean effort that leaves us “braced” with “stunned relief.”  It also is a grand round trip through history, music, and art.  Ranging from Odysseus and Othello to endangered pianists in 1930s Germany and a ruined Iraqi Street of Books, “Falcons” brings us back each time to more of what we didn’t know we needed, until we found it here.

–Donald Illich, author, Chance Bodies (Word Works, 2018); President, The Federal Poets

 

Levin is one of the world’s most accomplished creators of environmental laws that truly work.  There his media are science, economics, law and politics.  Here, amazingly, his poetry flows gently and captures life’s subtleties.

–Bill Drayton, Founder and CEO, Ashoka:  Everyone a Changemaker; former Assistant Administrator for Policy and Management, US EPA (1977-80)

 

These poems link geography and topography to journeys of the body, mind, and spirit.  They’re richly peopled with gods, heroes, beasts, and other creatures – all standing in for aspects of humanity and the human experience, especially love, death, and fear.   They connect, and connect the reader, to the great epics of journeying, wandering, and return.

–Michael Broder, Publisher, Indolent Books

 

 

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Falcons

by Michael H. Levin

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-232-0

2020

MICHAEL H. LEVIN is an environmental lawyer, solar energy developer and writer based in Washington DC.  His work has appeared in two chapbooks, several anthologies, and dozens of periodicals.  Watered Colors (Poetica) and Man Overboard (Finishing Line) were listed as Best Poetry Books for May 2014 and December 2018 respectively by Washington Independent Review of Books.  He recently co-authored Two Pianos: Playing for Life, a performance event with live classical music about young Jewish mothers concertizing under and after the Third Reich that premiered in Philadelphia June 2018 and Leipzig Germany June 2019.  See www.michaellevinpoetry.com ; https://twopianosplayingforlife.org

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