Miss Plastique

Miss Plastique, the fourth full-length poetry collection by Lynn Levin, invites the reader into a world of female bravado in which Miss Plastique and her many selves rant, fret, joke, fall in love, dress up, and do their hair. Poems in this collection first appeared in Boulevard, Artful Dodge, Hunger Mountain, Connecticut Review, Knockout, Nerve Cowboy, and other places.

"As they say on Twitter...BOOM! Dazzling displays of craft abound as in the sonnets 'The Notebook' and 'People Can Get Used to Just about Anything,' and just-plain-beauties like 'The Language of Wildflowers.'"
--The Philadelphia Inquirer 

"Levin writes with ferocious tenacity, all arterial memory, lust, found power, and raw regret like you imagine a Miss Plastique would be if she were real."
-- Cleaver
"In this accessible, outrageous, entertaining book, Lilith and Eve appear in funny, Rabelaisian poems that take place during shopping at the mall or strolls in the garden. Miss Plastique is fun, thought provoking, and paradoxical--an excellent read for anyone interested in the difficulties of existing as a modern and/or historical woman."
--Rain Taxi: Review of Books

"The poet's signature, razor-sharp wit and critical eye toward contemporary life give way to an underlying reverence for the tenderness and vulnerability of the human heart. Lynn Levin's poetry exhibits sophisticated craft and clear-eyed passion, yet never at the expense of hard truths and life's conundrums."
--Rattle

"Levin explores femininity and female bravado with characters who present themselves as bold, confident, and sexy."
-- Word Riot"

"Miss Plastique shows off Levin's intelligence and wit, cleverness and charm. These poems are full of parallels and paradoxes, mirrors and doors. Enough complexity and ambiguity to keep you returning and rereading."
--The Rumpus

"Recommend this book to your suburban mom (who may or may not have her own wild side). Hand it out to the hipsters in the coolest coffee shop in town. It's for your rock star boyfriend, your seventh-grade math teacher, and that friend of a friend who just sailed alone to Fiji. It's poetry for people who don't love poetry, and for people who love it too much, and for everyone in between."
-- Press 1