About the Book
In his third book of poems Mark Levine continues his exploration of the rhythms and forms of memory. The Wilds is set in the border regions between natural and cultivated states childhood and adulthood past and present. "We were boys," says the speaker of the opening poem "boyish almost girls./Left alone on the roof we would have dwindled." Austere and lyrical the music of these poems resonates with echoes of poetic tradition-Wyatt Jonson Milton Eliot-yet is singularly modern.