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In a variety of free verse, traditional forms, and sonnets, the poet begins to reassess his life and his art and considers the possibility that language may distance us from the real as much as bind us to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth deeply personal and powerfully spiritual, Not Till We Are Lost strives toward the rediscovery of relations - to family and lover, to culture, to environment. Whether in a desert canyon or a high-rise hotel or wading waist-deep in a river, the poet, solid and honest, is always aware of his ties to history and its artistic representations. 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In Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight, her fourth collection, Levine offers far-ranging subjects, including poems about a friend's suicide and the poet's own interactions with traumatized children, as well as a series of revision poems that question the imagination's infinite possibilities for creation. In \"Strolling in Late April,\" a woman with dementia wanders in a park filled with springtime beauty, while in \"Tahoe Wetlands,\" the speaker recalls a rape at gunpoint through the merciful distance of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt times humorous, ironic, and even redemptive, these poems are infused with lush images of the natural and physical world. Levine's work pries apart small places that exist within the spaces between beauty and trauma in an ordinary life. 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Once an artist's model, now a mother, Rathburn knows \"how hard \/ it is to be held in the eyes of another.\" Intimate and fearless, her poems move in interlocking sections between the pleasures and dangers of childhood, between masterpieces of art and magazine centerfolds, and--in a gripping sequence in dialogue with Delacroix's paintings and sketches of Medea--between the twinned ferocities of maternal love and rage. 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