The Widening Spell Of The Leaves
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The Widening Spell Of The Leaves
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Author : Larry Levis
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2013-08-09
The Widening Spell Of The Leaves written by Larry Levis and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-09 with Poetry categories.
The result is a book of discursive meditations that will amply reward the reader. Part travelogue, part pilgrimage in which the shrines remain hidden until they are recognized later, Larry Levis’s startling and complex fifth book of poems is about the enslavement to desire for personal freedom, and the awareness of its price.
The Selected Levis
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Author : Larry Levis
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2013-09-18
The Selected Levis written by Larry Levis and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-18 with Poetry categories.
Edited and with an Afterword by David St. John When Larry Levis died suddenly in 1996, Philip Levine wrote that he had years earlier recognized Levis as "the most gifted and determined young poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of my classes. . . . His early death is a staggering loss for our poetry, but what he left is a major achievement that will enrich our lives." Each of his books was published to wide critical acclaim, and David St. John has collected together the best of his work from his first five books: Wrecking Crew (1972), Afterlife (1976), The Dollmaker’s Ghost (1981), Winter Stars (1985) and The Widening Spell of the Leaves (1991). "It is not an exaggeration to say that the death of Larry Levis in 1996—; of a heart attack at 49—; sent a shock wave through the ranks of American poetry. Not only was Levis a good friend to many poets (not simply of his own generation but of many poets older and younger as well), his poetry had become a kind of touchstone for many of us, a source of special inspiration and awe. With Larry Levis’ death came the sense that an American original had been lost. . . . It is not at all paradoxical that he saw both the most intimate expressions of poetry and the grandest gestures of art, of language, as constituting individual acts of courage. One can only hope that, like such courage, Larry Levis’s remarkable poems will continue to live far into our literature."—; from the Afterword, by David St. John
The Darkening Trapeze
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Author : Larry Levis
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2016-01-05
The Darkening Trapeze written by Larry Levis and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-05 with Poetry categories.
The empty bar that someone was supposed to swing to him Did not arrive, & so his outstretched flesh itself became A darkening trapeze. The two other acrobats were thieves. --from "Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It" The Darkening Trapeze collects the last poems by Larry Levis, written during the extraordinary blaze of his final years when his poetry expanded into the ambitious operatic masterpieces he is known for. Edited and with an afterword by David St. John and published twenty years after Levis's death, this collection contains major unpublished works, including final elegies, brief lyrics, and a coda believed to be the last poem Levis wrote, a heart-wrenching poem about his son. The Darkening Trapeze is an astonishing collection by a poet many consider to be among the greatest of late-twentieth-century American poetry.
Elegy
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Author : Larry Levis
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 1997-11-15
Elegy written by Larry Levis and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-15 with Poetry categories.
A few days before his death in 1996, Larry Levis mentioned to his friend and former instructor Philip Levine that he had "an all-but-completed manuscript" of poems. Levine had years earlier recognized Levis as "the most gifted and determined young poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of my classes"; after Levis's death, Levine edited the poems Levis had left behind. What emerged is this haunting collection, Elegy.The poems were written in the six years following publication of his previous book, The Widening Spell of the Leaves, and continue and extend the jazz improvisations on themes that gave those poems their resonance. There are poems of sudden stops and threats from the wild: an opossum halts traffic and snaps at pedestrians in posh west Los Angeles; a migrant worker falls victim to the bites of two beautiful black widow spiders; horses starve during a Russian famine; a thief, sitting in the rigging of Columbus's ship, contemplates his work in the New World. The collection culminates in the elegies written to a world in which culture fragments; in which the beasts of burden—the horses, the migrant workers—are worked toward death; a world in which "Love's an immigrant, it shows itself in its work. / It works for almost nothing"; a world in which "you were no longer permitted to know, / Or to decide for yourself, / Whether there was an angel inside you, or whether there wasn't."Elegy, as Levine says, was "written by one of our essential poets at the very height of his powers. His early death is a staggering loss for our poetry, but what he left is a major achievement that will enrich our lives."
The Gazer Within
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Author : Larry Levis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Gazer Within written by Larry Levis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A posthumous collection of essays, reviews, and interviews by Larry Levis
Winter Stars
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Author : Larry Levis
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 1985-03-15
Winter Stars written by Larry Levis and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-03-15 with Poetry categories.
Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his life, about losses and acceptances. What emerges is not merely autobiography, but a biography of the reader, a "representative life" of our time.
The Afterlife
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Author : Larry Levis
language : en
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Release Date : 1998
The Afterlife written by Larry Levis and has been published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with American poetry categories.
A reissuing of The Afterlife, poetry by Larry Levis.
New American Poets
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Author : Jack Myers
language : en
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Release Date : 2005
New American Poets written by Jack Myers and has been published by David R. Godine Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with American poetry categories.
The best contemporary American poets are represented in this essential anthology.
Hunting Men
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Author : Dave Smith
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2006-12-01
Hunting Men written by Dave Smith and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Hunting Men, poet Dave Smith reasserts the validity of poetry in our times. With eloquence, grace, and a searching intelligence, Smith illuminates both poems and poets. Believing that "great poetry cannot be divorced from an intimate, organic link to place," he builds a compelling case for the importance of southern poets. Like the hunters who taught Smith as a young man patience, observation, and willingness to rely on his senses, he leads readers on an expedition through a specific poetic place with a sure sense of direction and destination.Beginning with a discussion of southern poetry that seeks to define the form and its value for a global readership, the first of the book's three sections also includes reflections on Edgar Allan Poe, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and James Dickey. In the second part, Smith focuses on contemporary poets Richard Hugo, Stephen Dunn, Stephen Dobyns, and Larry Levis, among others. In the final chapters, he examines how he came to be a poet and reflects on the nature and practice of poetry.Smith describes himself as a poet born and raised in the South "but never entirely comfortable with the neighborhood or many of the public assumptions about southernness." By describing why southern poetry is important to him, he reveals why poetry matters to all of us as he asserts the moral weight of regional art. "My success, if it occurs, will be to send readers to the books of the poets where the world, as they knew it, waits and is full of the delights of the unglimpsed and known."
Children Of Paradise
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Author : Liz Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2014-08-16
Children Of Paradise written by Liz Rosenberg and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-16 with Poetry categories.
A book of poems about "children" in the widest sense—from children of the Nazi-torn Warsaw ghettos to the American poor, as well as poems of domesticity, love, and daily life.