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Under the Sun
Rachel Levitsky
Paperback Poetry
0-9716800-1-9
96 Pages, 6 X 8
$12.00 U.S.
"Rachel Levitsky's savvy, slippery Under the Sun defies
metaphor as a path to transparent meaning...an expansive, evolving book
which dips in and out of logic, beauty, politics and selves."
—Arielle Greenberg, Rain Taxi Review of Books
"Mixing language and observations that are equal parts challenging,
erotic, enigmatic, and playful, Under the Sun is a remarkable
tumble through an emotional funhouse where scares, passions and mirth
divert us from the ennui and disappointments of everyday life."
—Phil
Hall, Gay City News (Read entire review)
"Gender is a pathway to a transformation of type into type. Poetry
because it is a complex occasion of forces realizes the emerging forms
of the imagination—the social imagination of our private transformations."
—Dale
Smith, Jacket Magazine (Read full review)
"Rachel Levitsky brilliantly designs mysterious flying objects of
language
and of desire, as she succeeds in giving each word an intriguing span
of
life. Her poems are theater, teaser, solution, entretien de tension
which
keep meaning and its boundaries open for intimate manuvres of
reading."
—Nicole Brossard
"Under the Sun operates on the small stages of intimate
conflict and longing, but casts light outside the ring: we see the shadows
of the crowd, we smell the dirty water that slaps against the piers. It's
a formulation and un-doing of the personal. Intimacy excavated yields
characters, ironic and adrift, who quiver in the jackets of their names.
We know them by contact, or contract, an occupation of looks and resistance.
The poem enacts the force of situated desire. Under the Sun is
brilliant wit wrenching poetics: a word stream taking its shirt off."
—Camille Roy
"I am struck by the intellectual verve of this poem, its complex
sense of the architecture of the poem as it responds to diverse literary
traditions. This long poem creates rooms of and room for playfulness,
humour, political anger, and aesthetic pleasures. It isn't static; it
moves; it reads itself and interrogates."
—Carla Harryman
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). Her work has appeared in numerous magazines. She lives and works in New York where she curates the Belladonna reading series and chapbooks series at Bluestockings Womens Bookstore.