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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\nHoward Levy\u2019s extraordinary lyric gifts are in full display in\u00a0Dreams & Maldreams,\u00a0<\/em>winner of the 2026 Three Mile Harbor Press Poetry Prize.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n With his stunning lyric gift, Howard Levy\u2019s Dreams & Maldreams <\/em>moves us trance-like through landscapes both welcoming and ice-laden. These are poems of a lived life, a plea not to \u201cdrift away silently\u201d but to be with the intensity of the world where \u201cclouds join to forge a sky of withered light.\u201d His Exile poems, meditations on Antarctica, bring us to a harsh landscape where a baby seal is alone and dying, where the exotic is \u201cthe mountains\/\u2026capes furred in a white\/that is the whitest shade of white\u201d. Levy is never simply an observer, instead he ignites us, plants us firmly in wonder.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n –Anne Marie Macari, author of Amerigun<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n How alone he is\/ in this unwelcoming, frigid\/ unsunned place.\u201d This is the poet at the bottom of the world \u2013 in Antarctica, where he argues \u201ccold is the truest condition of is.\u201d <\/strong><\/span>Years later, on another continent, in \u201cnewborn light,\u201d Howard Levy celebrates love\u2019s \u201cpoles\u201d instead, the magnetic field of a love that took him by surprise. In his gorgeous \u201cSuite in the Key of Late Sunlight,\u201d he will convince even the loneliest reader that it\u2019s never too late to find ourselves \u201cspeeding to each other”.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n –Allison Funk, author of The Visible Woman<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Early in Dreams & Maldreams<\/em>, Levy writes of \u201chow poems must charge into the wind of aloneness,\u201d and that charge here proves bracing. While abounding in probing observations and philosophical inquiry, these poems also attain a tone of sublime austerity. Expansive in space and time, they manage to straddle not only land and sea but the primal and the modern, transporting the reader so far as the south pole and as near as a subway car. Rare is it to find a craft as honed and assured as Levy\u2019s, able to ferry us from isolation to love, from desolation to grace<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n –Jeanne Marie Beaumont, author of Lessons with Scissors<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 8<\/span><\/p>\n 8<\/span><\/p>\n 8<\/span><\/p>\n 8<\/span><\/p>\n 8<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ISBN<\/strong>: 979-8-234-11298-9<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Trade Paperback: size 6 x 9<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Price: $20.00 <\/strong>Publication <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Date: September, 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h3>\n
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