For the Village or For Vanity

Andy Levine

Aug 2019 · Andy Levine Poetry

About this ebook

Andy Levine’s 5th collection of poetry was released in August of 2019. After four of years of writing and editing since 2015’s Outside the Complex, Levine explores a variety of areas in these poems. Life changes and an ever complicating run of societal events fill the contents of this new collection of words. In total, the 32 new poems cover a number of topics ranging from self-empowerment, the importance of artists, American politics, media consumption, gun control, navigating life changes and a harsh critique of corporate greed. This book is presented in four different sections; Rare Beauty In…, The Divided, Status For, and A Metric Con.

About the author

Author and Publisher Andy Levine was born in New England in 1981. Levine has shown an interest in writing poems since elementary school when he discovered the wonderful books of Shel Silverstein. As a teenager, he started taking writing more seriously and worked toward publishing a handful of collections until his 1st paperback book, Altered Vizion (out of print) was released in 2002. Levine went on to release 5 more collections, Independent (2006), Today Then Tomorrow (2010), Outside the Complex (2015), For the Village or For Vanity (2019) and All I know is I won't go SPEECHLESS (2022). Levine has chosen to self-publish these titles to maintain a sense of creative freedom and control over the process.