"A decisively innovative book" — Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Rachel Levitsky's second book, Neighbor, is published by Ugly Duckling Presse (2009). Levitsky’s first full length volume, Under the Sun was published by Futurepoem books. Levitsky writes poetry plays, three of which (one with Camille Roy) have been performed in New York and San Francisco. In 1999, Levitsky founded Belladonna Series (belladonnaseries.org) as a means to amplify the hushed existence of the feminist avant garde practice of writing.
Links
Interview with Rachel Levitsky on BOMBlog
Book Details
Trade PaperbackPerfect-bound. 96 pp, 6 x 8 in.
ISBN 978-1-933254-49-4
Publication Date: August 1, 2009
Distribution: SPD
- 09.02.11 | Neighbor by Rachel Levitsky is reviewed in e-consulta
- 04.08.11 | Dog Ear by Erica Baum and Neighbor by Rachel Levitsky featured in Jacket2
- 12.10.10 | Galatea Resurrects no. 15 reviews Nets, As It Turned Out, and Neighbor
- 11.08.10 | Rachel Levitsky's Neighbor is reviewed in Coldfront
- 05.10.10 | Neighbor by Rachel Levitsky is a Recent Title of Note on The Constant Critic
- 03.04.10 | Thom Donovan reviews Rachel Levitsky's Neighbor on Harriet
- 02.26.10 | Rachel Levitsky, author of Neighbor, guest blogs on 'confinement as commons' for the Poetry Project
- 12.17.09 | Rachel Levitsky is featured on the blog Delirious Hem, including a reading by Rachel
- 11.08.09 | The No Tells blog selects Neighbor by Rachel Levitsky as one of the best poetry books of 2009
- 10.19.09 | Rachel Levitsky speaks about Neighbor in a BOMBLOG interview
- 07.01.09 | Rachel Levitsky's Neighbor is included in Page One of Poets & Writers magazine
- 06.15.09 | Publishers Weekly reviews A Plate of Chicken and Neighbor
- 06.15.09 | Rachel Levitsky's Neighbor is reviewed in Publishers Weekly
- 01.08.09 | Rachel Levitsky's Neighbor is written up as a Staff Pick on SPD's site
News and Reviews
Advance Praise
Nearly touching are the ethical realm of our obligation to others and the aesthetic world of our freedom from such obligations. Levitsky's Neighbor confronts this imaginary dividing line—in the process, creating a poetry that both provokes community and critiques our social habituations. This is my neighborhood.—CHARLES BERNSTEIN
Neighbor is a sweet saga of disconnection. A collectivity of loss. Rachel should be working for the city of New York. 'I've decided to use my obsession/with my neighbor as the context/for a discussion of the State.' That in itself is incredible.—EILEEN MYLES
In and outside the window of Rachel Levitsky's apartment lie sadness, amusement and conflicted regard for the weirdo constructs of faith and scum politics. Her poet energy is a sweet intellect with lazy compulsive lines dropping onto a free and wishful page, ok with semi-resolve amidst the minor clatter of daily lust.—THURSTON MOORE