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Monks' Fruit

Monks' Fruit

Levin, A. J.

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ISBN10: 0889712026
ISBN13: 9780889712027
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
Published: Mar 23 2004
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.64 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
In his debut poetry collection, A.J. Levin presents a world in which the past overlays our modern existence, where classical allusions and philosophical observation are married to slapstick humour and carnival: Plato is a blues singer, Tantalus is a prospector in BC, and Descartes wanders around a Montreal amusement park. Monks' Fruit is above all a work of faith. Redemption lies in humour, imagination, curiosity and knowledge, though not in organized religion: Lazarus is reborn through his love, even extinct species have a second life when we remember them, but a parking lot is death itself.

Levin guides us not just through time but through place-a cramped Istanbul apartment, brown Mexican fields, noisy Toronto restaurants, and through England, Brazil, the American South. And everywhere is a place filled with the poem / of human architecture, a land made real by the ability to love and remember.

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