The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (570 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555977278 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Three Stars" according to Jeffrey L. Streeby. I much preferred Elegy and regard it most highly.. A book to celebrate The occasion of the publication of a book by one of America's greatest and most influential poets--a writer whose work is popular with readers from coast to coast and with poets of every age and aesthetic background--is an occasion for celebration and intense engagement. Naomi F said Levis at His Best. Levis' final poems are some of the finest he has ever written. Here, he continues the complex braiding he's been developing over his entire career and the end result is stunning. You can see here why Levis is known as a "poet's poet". The last poem in the book, thought
John, his longtime friend, the Levis we know and admire from Winter Stars, The Widening Spell of Leaves,, and Elegy is clearly evident here—but make no mistake about it, this book is its own solitary, seething beast. But that's not to say the book is bleak; it's not. In "New Year's Eve at the Santa Fe Hotel, Fresno, California," he writes, "Someday I won't/ Be home to anyone. Despite his lyrical genius and mythic poems influenced by art, film, and music, Levis still risks saying things plainly without any false promise of transcendence (which is, after all, why
The Darkening Trapeze is an astonishing collection by a poet many consider to be among the greatest of late-twentieth-century American poetry.. Edited and with an afterword by David St. 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. The empty bar that someone was supposed to swing to himDid not arrive, & so his outstretched flesh itself becameA darkening trapeze. John and published twenty years after Levis's death, this collection contains major unpublished works, including final elegies, brief lyrics, and a coda believed to be the last poem Levis wrote, a heart-wrenching poem about his son
. Larry Levis (1946-1996) was the award-winning author of five poetry collections during his lifetime, including Winter Stars and The Widening Spell of the Leaves, and the posthumous collections Elegy and The Selected Levis