Miriam Levine is a poet, memoirist, and fiction writer. Her five books of poetry include Saving Daylight and The Dark Opens, winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize. She is the author of Devotion, a memoir; In Paterson, a novel; and A Guide to Writers' Homes in New England. Her poems have been widely published in such places as American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review.

Books by Miriam Levine:

Other poems on the web by Miriam Levine:
"In South Beach"
"For a Poem"
"Daylight Savings"

Miriam Levine's Website.

About Saving Daylight:

"Alive to the erotic as it is to the elegiac . . . and everywhere the unflinching attention to friends and family. . . . What Miriam Levine sings about the perfect pitch and resplendent grace of Billie Holiday is true of her own mournful yet radiantly joyful eloquence: 'You've seen pictures? Heard her young? / She could float sound across her completely relaxed tongue, / the furled petals of cattleya clasped like a hand against her head.'"
—George Kalogeris

"I admire these poems for their unwavering commitment to the contradictions and complexities of our lives. Sometimes playfully, sometimes soberly, they orchestrate the pathos, comedy, terror, dignity, beauty and inevitability of our common predicament . . . There's real wisdom here as well as the rich pleasures of new work . . ."
—Linda Bamber

"Reading Saving Daylight is like . . . entering a garden . . . only there are people there too with their own colors and scents, themselves vivid and wildly alarming and attractive as anything in the natural world. Levine's devotion to the senses, her knowledge . . . of plants, her keen cherishing of life—all contribute to a book that gives us . . . star magnolia buds . . . 'in velvet cases / that shine along the branches / and keep faith with the future'—a tour de force of bravery and conjuring and high voltage passion . . ."
—Alan Feldman