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About White Food
poems by Toni Mergentime Levi ( New York )
80 pages, ISBN I-886124-01-9
Trade Paperback (2016); Retail Price $15.95
Praise for White Food: "A wonderful book! In this lovely and affecting collection, Levi’s poetic stories take us on a life-long journey, wherein the stewardship of time, memory, humanity and love passes from one generation to another, challenging each of us as we travel on. It may, indeed, be darkness that lies at the end of our journey, but as Levi suggests, we are sustained by the hope that some essential trace of who we are and those we’ve loved will survive." — Eleanor Lerman
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Poetry Readings (sampling)
NYC: Poets House, Cornelia St. Cafe, KGB Bar, McNally Jackson Books, NY Poetry Festival (Governor's Island), Bowery Poetry Club, Why There Are Words-NYC, Nuyorican Poets Café, Local 138, The Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza, NY Public Library, Westbeth, NY Center for Independent Publishing, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Brooklyn College, WBAI-FM (broadcast).
Others: Canio’s Books (Sag Harbor), Golden Notebook (Woodstock), Spoken Word at Spencertown Academy, Word Thursdays at Bright Hill Center (Treadwell), Hudson Valley Writers Center (Sleepy Hollow), Wolfman Books (Oakland, CA)
Praise for the Poems of Toni Mergentime Levi
“Toni Levi’s poetry has grace, intelligence, delicate feeling and wit. Her clear voice can be heard in all she writes.” — Molly Peacock
“Musical, insightful, Toni Levi’s collection is filled with poems of grace and offbeat discernment. With joy I salute the maturity and depth of her work.”
— Colette Inez on For A Dancing Bear
“The often lyrical, always personal pieces in Watching Mother Disappear match the long, pitch-perfect title poem in quality of thought, clarity of expression and depth of feeling.” — Thad Rutkowski on Watching Mother Disappear & Other Poems
“There is so much power and spiritual strength in Toni Levi’s work. Her poems display enormous skill, craft and control.” — Lloyd Van Brunt
Review of White Food: “...fine poems that are a powerful statement of self determination and womanhood.... Toni Mergentime Levi reminded [me] of Fran Lebowitz, if Fran Lebowitz wrote poetry.... Strong, smart and funny.... casting an honest and revealing light on the relationships that make and define what we can call family.... Levi can orchestrate and she can burn.” — Michael Dennis, Today's Book of Poetry, April 4, 2018
