The Book of Levinson (e-book) (used book) | Cat Dixon | bookbook.eu

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“[I]nstead, the roundabout and then the pier, Cat Dixon writes as she unfurls the story of American hostage Bob Levinson in this riveting and provocative collection. The airport’s the other way. This is the story of the man who never made it to that airport. And Cat Dixon has told it in the most harrowing of manners—through sidelong glances and haunting metaphors of agony. A solitary light bulb becomes a body on the gallows. Polo shirts and sports cars are memories that have sunk into shadow for the sake of their survival. The poet has imagined what for most of us is unimaginable. It is a song of homecoming in honor of a man yet to come home.”
–Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of the novel Hausfrau, a New York Times Bestseller



With The Book of Levinson, Cat Dixon makes an important addition to the poetry of witness. With compassion, insight, and poetic skill, she offers a detailed sketch of one of this century’s many hostage victims, a man long in danger of disappearing into anonymity after the world’s attention quickly focused elsewhere. She gives Bob Levinson something he no doubt hopes for, if still alive: a voice that’s very hard to forget. This well-crafted, moving little book could be a lifeline.

–William Trowbridge, author of Put This On, Please and Ship of Fool