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Watching Mother Disappear & Other Poems
By Toni Mergentime Levi ( New York )
Mayapple Press, 2009
ISBN 978-0932412-836
Trade Paperback; Retail Price $15.95

Watching Mother Disappear is a lyrical collection filled with poems of grace, intelligence, delicate feeling and wit. The long, deeply personal title poem speaks to the emotional and psychological complexities of caring for a parent suffering from Alzheimer’s. The collection continues with poems that explore other relationships and experiences, engage in flights of fancy, and meditate on finite time and the precariousness of the world we now inhabit. Musical and insightful, Levi’s clear voice can be heard in all she writes.

Upcoming Reading

Kleinert/James Arts Center
34 Tinker St.
Woodstock, NY
5 PM, Sunday, April 29, 2012
Presented by The Golden Notebook bookstore

Reading Venues (sampling)

In NYC: Cornelia Street Cafe, Bowery Poetry Club, KGB Bar, Canio’s Books, Small Press Center, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, New York Public Library, McNally Jackson Bookstore, White Rabbit, Biblio’s, Brooklyn College, WBAI-FM (broadcast)

In Upstate NY: Word Thursdays at Bright Hill Center in Treadwell, Unlicensed Poetry Festival in Woodstock, Spoken Word Series at Spencertown Academy, Saltonstall Foundation in Ithaca

Elsewhere: California, New Hampshire, Virginia, Wyoming, Germany