Now Do You Know Where You Are

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New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2022"NPR "Best Books of 2022""Levin's luminous latest reckons with the disorientation of contemporary America. . . . Through the fog of doubt, Levin summons ferocious intellect and musters hard-won clairvoyance."--Publishers Weekly, starred reviewDana Levin's fifth collection is a brave and perceptivecompanion, walking with the reader through the disorientations of personal andcollective transformation. Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how greatchange calls the soul out of the old lyric, "to be a messenger―to recordwhatever wanted to stream through." Levin works in a variety of forms, callingon beloveds and ancestors, great thinkers and religions―convened by Levin's ownspun-of-light wisdom and intellectual hospitality―balancing clear-eyedforensics of the past with vatic knowledge of the future. "So many bodies asoul has to press through: personal, familial, regional, national, global, planetary, cosmic― // 'Now do you know where you are?'"