Monks' Fruit

Kirjan Monks' Fruit (2004) on kirjoittanut A.J. Levin. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Nightwood Editions. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 88 sivua ja se on pokkari.

In his debut poetry collection, A. J. Levin presents a world in which the past overlays our modern existence, where classical allusions and philosophical observation are married to slapstick humour and carnival: Plato is a blues singer, Tantalus is a prospector in BC, and Descartes wanders around a Montreal amusement park. "Monks' Fruit" is above all a work of faith. Redemption lies in humour, imagination, curiosity and knowledge, though not in organized religion: Lazarus is reborn through his love, even extinct species have a second life when we remember them, but a parking lot is death itself. Levin guides us not just through time but through place-a cramped Istanbul apartment, brown Mexican fields, noisy Toronto restaurants, and through England, Brazil, the American South. And everywhere is a "place filled with the poem / of human architecture," a land made real by the ability to love and remember.