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Peter Levitt
Winter Still
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"Winter Still is a book with a singular clarity and depth. Compellingly perceptive, these poems are unified throughout, with a consciousness that is linguistically alert and fluid. The intelligence behind this work is felt in every line. At every turn we discover the world anew through the heart of this poet. Yeats once wrote, 'It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what that feeling is.' Peter Levitt knows what he feels. We all should be grateful for this gift."
– Don Domanski, author of Parish Of The Physic Moon, Stations Of The Left Hand, Wolf-Ladder...
Colophon: Cover 6" x 8 1/2", with French flaps. Paper: Environment Smooth Natural White 80lb, 100% recycled, 50% sugar cane fiber. Cover blind-embossed with "island poets" on inside flap in 48 pt Palatino. Title and author hand-set in metal type and letterpress printed by Peter Haase on a 100 yr old C & P platen press. Type: Italian Old Style Roman 36 & 24 pt. cut by Jim Rimmer of Pie Tree Press. Cover ink hand mixed (purple). Linocut created and printed by Peter Haase; snow on plum branch & colour sweep across bottom of cover. Endpapers: Purple Batik, 100% cotton, handmade in India. 2nd endpaper: Curious Translucents Pearl 27 lb. text, natural 100% pure cellulose fiber paper. Acid free. Text paper: Concept Vellum, Sand, 60lb, acid-free. Text set in Aldine. Layout by Mark Hand Design. Book designed, edited and constructed by Mona Fertig. 28 pages. Handsewn with plum embroidery thread from France. Inside text printed by Imagine That Graphics - Salt Spring Island - on a Xerox Phaser 7750GX. Chapbook comes in bi-orientated polyproylene acid-free bag. Numbered and signed by the author in a limited edition of 125. Published by (m)Öthêr Tøñgué Presš - April 2007. © 2007 Peter Levitt
About the Author: Peter Levitt is mostly known as a poet, but he has also published journalism, essays, fiction and translations from Chinese, Japanese and Spanish. Poet Robert Creeley has written that Peter's poetry 'sounds the honor of our common dance." In 1989 Peter received the Lannan Foundation Literary Award in Poetry for works that "represent exceptional literary achievement, foster imaginative critical thinking, and call attention to essential humanistic values in creative, skillful and provocative ways." In addition to his eight books of poetry he has published the non-fiction books, Fingerpainting on the Moon: Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom, (Random House, 2003) and A Flock of Fools: Ancient Buddhist Tales of Wisdom and Laughter, co-authored by Kaz Tanahashi, (Grove Press, 2004.)
A longtime practitioner of Zen, he edited and wrote the Forewords for The Heart of Understanding by Thich Nhat Hanh, and Jakusho Kwong's No Beginning, No End: The Intimate Heart of Zen.
Peter and his family moved to Salt Spring Island in 2000, where he leads the Salt Spring Zen Meditation Circle. He has just completed the manuscript for a new book of poems, Within Within, and is currently working on a book of what he calls "poetic fictions", Le Petit Chapeau.
Edition: Limited edition of 125.
ISBN: 1-896949-40-1
Year: 2007
Price: $30 CDN plus $3.00 shipping
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