Donald Lev - There Is Still Time

IN THE POETRY OF DONALD LEV, THE SPIRIT OF GOGOL RETURNS TO LIFE IN BROOKLYN AND THE LOWER EAST SIDE, UTTERING STINGING SATIRES AND MEMORABLE WHIMSIES, SINGING IN THE CADENCES  OF A WHITMAN, A FIFTIES BEAT, AN ETERNAL, PUZZLED OUTSIDER.

FROM REVIEWS OF DONALD LEV’S POETRY:

This remarkable book of poems is full of startling recognitions and insights into the ambiguities and incongruities of reality... To read these poems is to embark on an adventure in the consciousness of an observant poet who is not lacking in a sense of humor. He expands our own consciousness as he disburdens his.

--Stephen Stepanchev, in an afterword to Peculiar Merriment

...a highly personal style: puckish, satiric, and always engaging. His verse, indeed, echoes Kenneth Fearing, Paul Blackburn, and yes, even Charles Bukowski...

--Edward C. Lynskey, Small Press Review

The poet... comes across sort of like a Beat in slow motion...Lev’s inquisitiveness and intelligence have a distinctly masculine cast. His voice, its cadences sometimes evocative of Whitman, is so consistent across the poems that it seems to carry a portrait of him right in it.

--Kelly Lockmer, Woodstock Times

... can stand comparison with Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus... a style that is surreal and reportorial as if Orpheus himself were covering a dead beat for the New York Post.

--William Packard, introduction to Intercourse with the Dead

This PDF ebook is an exact copy of the 1998 poetry volume, printed and hand-bound by The Poet's Press in New York City. The print book has been out of print for many years.