<p>Phillis Levin's much-anticipated sixth collection, An Anthology of Rain, is a stunning series of poemsimmersed in time while acknowledging "How it is / Is not how it is / It keeps changing." Yet thefleeting presence of so much in this lyrical collection is what the reader is gifted. In poem afterpoem, memories are stirred to become as palpable as the present in this poet's keen imagining. Evena remembered duel of roses between friends and across languages is itself a cause for delight, as isthe vision of a father returned to life to assuage the poet's grief. Light and water are the twinelements that course through these poems, whether it be the "[b]lighted light" of a leaf turning inearly fall, or the "orb of light" (a water droplet caught in her father's hair) that entranced the poet asan infant, or the drop of rain in the brilliant title poem, "An Anthology of Rain" that invites thereader to follow its movement and receive the rain that "receives you." Such a spirit of reciprocitybetween poet and reader animates this collection and is a poignant reminder of what the best poemsoffer: that thrilling sense of immediacy even in the face of flux.</p>

An Anthology of Rain: Poems

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An Anthology of Rain: Poems