new from above/ground press: Vast Spaces, by John Levy

Vast Spaces
John Levy
$6

YUKI
                                               for Angella Kassube

The Japanese word for snow, plus the name Angella gave her cat. When it snows in Minneapolis, the snow never completely fills the u in Yuki’s name. Nor the opening at the top of the Y. Both spaces are too vast, as is Yuki’s spirit, an immensity which animates her entire body and which Angella understands better than anyone when she looks into Yuki’s eyes.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

cover photo by the author: “Half Moon Bay”

John Levy lives in Tucson. He is married to the painter Leslie Buchanan. His collection of poems, 54 poems: selected & new, was published by Shearsman Books in 2023. 

This is Levy’s second chapbook with above/ground press, after To Assemble an Absence (2024).

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