After having read the book, I heard Ms. Levin read in Chelsea, and I must say, I was amazed. My word will never be sufficient....

I love this book and found a great review by Susan Conley in Ploughshares:...Winner of the inaugural APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Louise Gluck, this fiercely intelligent book is grounded firmly in the realm of American confessional poetry, but Levin wisely and skillfully manipulates conventional boundary lines. The "future of the body" is in question here, and the rich symbolism of this corporeal and spiritual investigation supports this volume in a complex architecture. Lines between truth and fiction, history and autobiography, continuously blur in the book's dark, elliptical explorations....What amazes in this collection is how various speakers hover over bloody bodies, over wreckage of nuclear families and inconsolable anger, and still choose to go back into the body because they "can't bear not feeling."....Yet, it is often the device of the angels that holds these...poems together. Much is asked of these harbringers of life. Angels instead of surgeons handle the scalpels in the title poem, presiding over the sick....Like Rilke's angels in the Duino Elegies, Levin's angels know pain and despair, but ultimately they are transcendent witnesses who give this fine book its wings.

This book is wonderful, it captures the beauty of America in page after page of splendor. It's a must for everyone that enjoys what America has to offer for scenery. I have bought many of these books as gifts to people from other countries. I think it shows just how beautiful America is, and helps them decide where to visit. Everyone we've given this book to seems to love it. Seeing is believing in this book. You won't be disappointed!