Tag: Eleanor Levine
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Three Original Poems by Eleanor Levine
What the Legendary Do Abbie Hoffman says “rich kids do heroin”Springsteen plays pool with my brotherBob Dylan snores at an A.A. meetingToni Morrison is a postage stampLiz Smith disparages my researchGrandpa Munster makes sexist remarksChairman Mao doesn’t brush his teethStalin kisses you in the East VillageHitler taps me at the Exxon stationJohn Goodman argues in…
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Kissing a Tree Surgeon, Eleanor Levine’s short story collection, reviewed by Judy T. Oldfield
On page 133 of Eleanor Levine’s story collection, Kissing a Tree Surgeon, I sat up straight, thrown for a loop at the name Diane Lewis. Though the marketing and jacket copy never refer to the collection as a novel in flash or linked stories, as a reader, I had thought of it as one; every…
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New Fiction for Bad Survivalist: “Karen” by Eleanor Levine
She speaks thirty seconds, a mere thirty seconds, after I ignore her for five years, and then I’m back. I’m always back. * I am like the trappers in Werner Herzog’s movie Happy People—the trackers of the Siberian Taiga—happy in their solitary hunting, but I’m not solitary. * Karen was my girlfriend for six months,…
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Five Poems by Eleanor Levine
The Day After I’m crying for you America.For all the bullies who have picked on you.Knotted your hair in a twist.Soaked your face in leeches.Perpetuated myths about your reality.Sunk you in the apple barrel and pushed you deeper into it.Made you drown, but let you breathe, only to worry you might drown again.I am sorry…
Heavy Feather Review 