Enola Gay

Some devastation has struck the soul and the Earth alike, and in Enola Gay, his second volume of poems, Mark Levine surveys the disaster. Here is a volume of poetry approaching Carolyn Forche''s The Angel of History as a stark meditation on Blanchot''s sense of writing as the "desired, undesired torment which endures everything."

Levine engages the traditional resources of lyric poetry in an expl...