Imponderables
Propel the Dance:
the Russian Collection
Stunning new poetry collection sculpted or (better yet) hammered out of the inmost recesses of a first time published poet against a back story of an American in Moscow slowly but surely transforming from a wide-eyed investor lawyer/banker searching for his roots to drinking vodka, smoking cigarettes and reading and writing poetry - in other words toward becoming thoroughly Russian despite his deep American roots. Alex Levitch serves up one illusion after another as he pits one imponderable after another in a madcap series of poetic narratives that challenges, confesses, probes. His poetry reminds one of Chekov, Milosz, Keats, and other later-in-life business poets like Stevens.