Mark Levine, Author . Univ. of California $45 (65p) ISBN 978-0-520-24041-4
Levine's pessimistic, even apocalyptic third volume picks up where Enola Gay
(2000) and his influential debut, Debt
(1992) left off: startling and slippery images, and fast-moving, even disorienting poems depict postmodern scenes so...
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Mark Levine, Author University of California Press $30 (79p) ISBN 978-0-520-22259-5
The follow up to Levine's debut Debt (1993) finds the poet spinning confrontational riffs on the same big questions that vexed him before: how can art survive a great disaster (a world war, say)? How can it not make promises it can't keep? And how...
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Mark Levine, Author . Melville House $13.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-307-35339-9
Two books delve into the Middle East's burgeoning youth culture, looking at young people who maintain devotion to Islam and Iron Maiden and grapple creatively with tradition and modernity.
Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance and the Struggle...
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Mark Levine, Author . Hyperion $25.95 (307p) ISBN 978-1-4013-5220-2
On April 3, 1974, a megastorm rampaged through the central U.S., unleashing at least 148 tornados, six of which attained the rare and overpowering "F5" category, with sustained winds of over 260 miles per hour. The storm killed hundreds and...
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Stephen M. Pollan, Author, Mark Levine, Author HarperResource $23.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-06-058393-4
This stimulating, iconoclastic career-development primer is a rare example of the self-help/motivational genre with a difference. Life coach Pollan and his collaborator Levine, authors of the contrarian retirement planning guide Die Broke, don't...
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Stephen M. Pollan, Author, Mark Levine, Author, Mark Levine, Joint Author William Morrow & Company $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-051487-7
After spending decades on Wall Street, Pollan, at age 48, became ill and was forced to re-create his professional life. Now he's working as an author (of more than a dozen financial and self-help books) and life coach, helping others to follow their
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Mark LeVine, Author Oneworld Publications $27.5 (438p) ISBN 978-1-85168-365-9
If media chatter about the ""Axis of Evil"" seems ubiquitous to the point of losing its meaning, LeVine offers up an alternative ""Axis of Empathy"" to counteract what he sees as the U.S.'s dangerous ""Axis of Arrogance and Ignorance."" The author...
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