The Book of Levinson by Cat Dixon

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“[I]nstead, the roundabout and then the pier, Cat Dixon writes as she unfurls the story of American hostage Bob Levinson in this riveting and provocative collection. The airport’s the other way.  This is the story of the man who never made it to that airport.  And Cat Dixon has told it in the most harrowing of manners—through sidelong glances and haunting metaphors of agony. A solitary light bulb becomes a body on the gallows.  Polo shirts and sports cars are memories that have sunk into shadow for the sake of their survival. The poet has imagined what for most of us is unimaginable. It is a song of homecoming in honor of a man yet to come home.”
–Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of the novel Hausfrau, a New York Times Bestseller

 

With The Book of Levinson, Cat Dixon makes an important addition to the poetry of witness. With compassion, insight, and poetic skill, she offers a detailed sketch of one of this century’s many hostage victims, a man long in danger of disappearing into anonymity after the world’s attention quickly focused elsewhere. She gives Bob Levinson something he no doubt hopes for, if still alive: a voice that’s very hard to forget. This well-crafted, moving little book could be a lifeline.

–William Trowbridge, author of Put This On, Please and Ship of Fool

 

 

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The Book of Levinson

by Cat Dixon

$14.99,paper

978-1-63534-249-9

2017

Cat Dixon is the author of Eva and Too Heavy to Carry (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2016, 2014) and Our End Has Brought the Spring (Finishing Line Press, 2015). She is the managing editor of The Backwaters Press, a nonprofit press in Omaha. She is the editor of Watching the Perseids: The Backwaters Press Twentieth Anniversary Anthology (BWP, 2017). Her poetry and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Sugar House Review, Midwest Quarterly Review, Coe Review, Eclectica, and Mid-American Review. 

2 reviews for The Book of Levinson by Cat Dixon

  1. Second Blurb –

    With The Book of Levinson, Cat Dixon makes an important addition to the poetry of witness. With compassion, insight, and poetic skill, she offers a detailed sketch of one of this century’s many hostage victims, a man long in danger of disappearing into anonymity after the world’s attention quickly focused elsewhere. She gives Bob Levinson something he no doubt hopes for, if still alive: a voice that’s very hard to forget. This well-crafted, moving little book could be a lifeline.

    — William Trowbridge, author of Put This On, Please and Ship of Fool

  2. Bethany –

    Excellent collection

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