Research Catalog

Title

The selected Levis / Larry Levis ; selected and with an afterword by David St. John.

Author

Levis, Larry.

Publication

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• St. John, David, 1949-
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

vi, 177, [1] p.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 1900 - 1999
• American poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

American poetry.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Wrecking crew: The poem you asked for. Magician poems. L.A., loiterings. For stones. Fish. For the country. The town -- Maybe the dead. Unfinished poem -- The afterlife: Rhododendrons. The double. Signs. Inventing the toucan. Readings in French. A poem of horses. The crimes of the shade trees. Linnets -- The dollmaker's ghost: Picking grapes in an abandoned vineyard. The ownership of the night. To a wall of flame in a steel mill, Syracuse, New York, 1969. Truman, Da Vinci, Nebraska. Edward Hopper, Hotel room, 1931. My only photograph of Weldon Kees. For Miguel Hernandez in his sleep and in his sickness: Spring, 1942, Madrid. For Zbigniew Herbert, Summer, 1971, Los Angeles. García Lorca: a photograph of the Granada Cemetery, 1966. Lost fan, Hotel California, Fresno, 1923. Some ashes drifting above Piedra, California. For a ghost who once placed bets in the park. Overhearing the dollmaker's ghost on the riverbank. Blue stones. The spirit says, you are nothing -- Winter stars: The poet at seventeen. Adolescence. The cry. Winter Stars. Irish music. Family romance. Though his name is infinite, my father is asleep. Childhood ideogram. In the city of light. My story in a late style of fire. After the Blue Note closes. Whitman. Some grass along a ditch bank. Two variations on a theme by Kobayashi. Those graves in Rome. The assimilation of the gypsies. Sensationalism -- The widening spell of the leaves: The spell of the leaves. Sleeping lioness. Slow child with a book of birds. The perfection of solitude: a sequence. To a wren on Calvary -- The widening spell of the leaves. At the grave of my guardian angel: St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans.

ISBN

0822941414

OCLC

45392632

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library