ABOUT THE BOOK

Whip-smart, funny, and intimate, What Have I to Say to You is Megan Levad’s much-anticipated second full-length poetry collection. Taking as its impetus the William Carlos Williams phrase “the stain of love is upon the world,” the book wanders through the ordinary world of lovers, sisters, high-school football, and agriculture in an unflinchingly interrogative voice. Levad is an intellectual and theorist to the core.

"This is a voice that would tell a lover only the harsh skinny about itself and the most terrible truth, not about our fascination with the selfie, but instead the polaroid. This is a smart love of everyone and nearly everything and it graciously leaves behind unforgettable minimal/maximal artifacts that are vivid songs, alive and formal. What a wonderful human accomplishment this book is." 

—Norman Dubie

REVIEWS

State Lines: ‘Reader,’ by Megan Levad, by David Roderick (San Francisco Chronicle)

Sappho Eating Her Heart Out: An Interview with Megan Levad, by Anthony Madrid (The Paris Review)

Love of Metaphor: A Review of Megan Levad’s What Have I To Say To You, by Andrew Hungate (Literary Matters)

ABOUT MEGAN LEVAD

Selected as Tavern Books’ 2014 Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series poet, Levad is the author of Why We Live in the Dark Ages (Tavern Books, 2015) and What Have I to Say to You (Tavern Books, 2017). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly, Fence, Mantis, and Tin House, among others, and in the Everyman’s Library anthology Killer Verse. She also writes lyrics for composers Tucker Fuller and Kristin Kuster. Her debut libretto Kept: A Ghost Story premiered at the Virginia Arts Festival in May 2017. Levad lives in San Francisco.

104 pages | 5.5 x 7.5 in.
ISBN-13: 978-1-935635-76-5 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-935635-77-2 (hardcover)