May Day

May Day is a wor k of a visionar y imagination. In tones playful and celebratory, in gestures both intimate and international, Levin's poems explore how tenderness and violence change our lives. From a flood overtaking the Prague zoo to the joy of a maypole dance, from a mural of the Trojan War in a Greek diner in New Y ork to the "noiseless explosions" of time in the opening

of a flower, these poems are rhapsodies of the senses and the intellect, disclosing new thresholds of meaning.