New Vilna Review mentioned on greenprophet.com (5/31/08)
Daniel’s interview with greenprophet.com’s co-founder Karin Kloosterman has recieved top billing on the Green Prophet site.
Are These My Lions? Gets a Positive Review from Art:Mag (10/11/07)
Daniel’s poetry collection Are These My Lions? has received a positive review in issue #31 of the Las Vegas-based literary journal Art:Mag.
Radio interview on WMPG, 90.9 and 104.1 (9/30/07)
Daniel was a guest on Gail Wartell’s radio show on WMPG, Greater Portland Community Radio, on Sunday September 30, 2007.
Profile on The Jerusalem Post website (8/12/07)
Daniel had a profile chosen to appear on the homepage of the Jerusalem Post website. Please click here to check it out.
Profile In The Weekly Dig (8/8/07)
Daniel was profiled in the regular column “Defend Yourself” in the August 8, 2007 edition of the Boston alternative newspaper “The Weekly Dig,” which has a circulation of 70,000. Please click here to read the article.
Interview with the Jewish Telegraph of Manchester, England (7/21/07)In July of 2007 Daniel was interviewed by Rob Clayton of the Jewish Telegraph newspaper of Manchester, England. In this interview Daniel talks about what it was like to be in Jerusalem in the summer of 2006 and what inspired him to write his collection of poems, “Are These My Lions?”
Praise for “Are These My Lions?” from Fullosia Press (7/10/07)
Are These My Lions” is the epic poem of Daniel Levenson’s stay in Israel during the flare up of hostilities with Hezbullah in 2006. “Watch[ing] for signs of war, he sees “children splash[ing] and play[ing],” an “English and Hebrew Jazz Fest,” a “jogger passing,” a “girl studying her cell phone,” and ubiquitous “loud Americans.” At the same time “rockets are falling, holy things shuttered,” a “missile hits a tank, vibrations echo out concentric rings of grief.” “Surely,” Levenson exclaims, “the old city laments the destruction.”
There is a soothing sweetness in the flow of the language which gently leads the reader from stanza to stanza following the footsteps of Daniel Levenson’s journey. In a place where God is on everybody’s side, life can be a Kafkaesque juxtaposition of transparent normalcy against the frightening scenes of fire and mass destruction. Yet describing commonplace set against the bizarre, the words flow with the elegant mastery of a craftsman of poetry.
Although Daniel speaks of his departure with the Jerusalem hills ablaze in terms of a cloudy sentimentally, perhaps his experiences in Israel may have revealed “America” however minor in spiritual devotion remains the true “miracle.”
Praise for Red Sky At Night From Ralph Haselmann, Jr. of Lucid Moon Poetry (8/11/01)
“Red Sky At Night, poetry and prose book by Daniel E. Levenson, 2001, 112 pages. This is a heartfelt collection of simple but soulful poetry that celebrates the outdoors, nature, animals, the Natural Wildlife Preserves, the desert, and Leonardo DaVinci’s flying machines in trips to Italy and the southwest of the United States. A Soul Can Move Out Here reads: “A soul can move out here, in this red, red desert air, where the birds swing low into the branches of a Juniper, looking for a little shade or perhaps a tender bug to eat. A soul can move out here, among the red rock, and scrub cactus, with the vultures wheeling overhead, waiting for a body to drop. A soul can move out here through the arches and feel the sunshine in the devil’s garden. A soul can move out here floating beneath the star-crushed sky and breathing in the night air of late winter in the high desert. A soul can move out here, away from pain and chaos, into the clear embrace of the cool desert sky.” Throughout this book we can feel the good vibes that come from communing with nature, and we celebrate with Daniel the joy of just being alive. A fine read.”
