Phillis Levin is a singular poet whose fifth collection, Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and received a starred review from Library Journal, which also named the book one of its Top Picks in Poetry.

Phillis Levin’s much-anticipated sixth collection, An Anthology of Rain, is a series of poems immersed in time while acknowledging “How it is / Is not how it is / It keeps changing.” Memories become palpable as the present: a duel of roses between friends and across languages is cause for delight, as is the vision of a father returned to life to assuage the poet’s grief. Light and water are twin elements, whether the “Blighted light” of a leaf turning in early fall or a drop of rain inviting us to trace its movement down a window. A spirit of reciprocity between poet and reader animates this collection, creating what the best poems offer—a thrilling sense of immediacy in the face of flux.

A Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of several prizes, her other books include Mr. Memory & Other Poems, a finalist for the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize; May Day; Mercury; The Afterimage; and Temples and Fields, which won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Her honors include a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, an Ingram Merrill Grant, and fellowships from the Amy Lowell Trust, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet.

The poems in this new book have been published in The Atlantic, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The New Criterion, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Plume, Poetry, Poem-a-Day (Academy of American Poets), and The Yale Review; others are forthcoming in The Common, Great River Review, and Raritan.

She lives with her husband, Jack Shanewise, in New York City.