Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Rachel Levitsky is the author of four previous chapbooks of poetry, Cartographies of Error (Leroy Chapbooks), 2[1x1] Portraits (Baksun), Dearly (A + Bend Press) and The Adventures of Yaya and Grace (Potes and Poets). She lives and worksin New York where she curates the influential Belladonna reading series and chapbooks series at Bluestockings Womens Bookstore. "This work creates rooms of and room for playfulness, humour, political anger, and aesthetic pleasures. It isn't static; itmoves; it reads itself and interrogates."--Carla Harryman. "Her poems are theater, teaser, solution, entretien de tension whichkeep meaning and its boundaries open for intimate manuvres of reading"--Nicole Brossard. "Under the Sun is brilliant wit-wrenching poetics: a word stream taking its shirt off"--Camille Roy.
Synopsis
Poetry. "This work creates rooms of and room for playfulness, humor, political anger, and aesthetic pleasures. It isn't static; it moves; it reads itself and interrogates."—Carla Harryman. "UNDER THE SUN is brilliant wit-wrenching poetics: a word stream taking its shirt off"—Camille Roy.
About the Author
Rachel Levitsky's first full length volume, UNDER THE SUN, was published by Futurepoem books in 2003. She is the author of five chapbooks of poetry, Dearly (a+bend, 1999), Dearly 356, Cartographies of Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures of Yaya and Grace (PotesPoets, 1999) and 2(1x1)Portraits (Baksun, 1998). Levitsky writes poetry plays, three of which (one with Camille Roy) have been performed in New York and San Francisco. Her work is published in magazines such as The Recluse, Sentence, FENCE, The Brooklyn Rail, Global City, THE HAT, Skanky Possum, Lungfull! and the anthologies, Boog City (vol. I and II), Bowery Women, and 19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology. Recently her work was translated into Icelandic for the anthology 131.839 Sl"g Med Bilum by Eirikur Orn Nordahl. Online poetry and critical essays can be found on such sites as Narrativity, Duration Press, How2, and Web Conjunctions. She has taught poetry workshops at Woodland Pattern, Naropa University, Poets House, the Poetry Project and the Pratt Institute. She is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an event and publication series of feminist avant-garde poetics. Currently she serves as the CPW Fellow in Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.