{"product_id":"elegy-9780822956488","title":"Elegy","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eElegy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The poems were written in the six years following publication of his previous book, \u003ci\u003eThe Widening Spell of the Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eElegy\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-202932\"\u003eLarry Levis\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.70w x 0.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822956488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822956489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarry Levis was born in Fresno, California, in 1946. His first book of poems, \u003ci\u003eWrecking Crew\u003c\/i\u003e, won the United States Award from the International Poetry Forum, and was published in the Pitt Poetry Series in 1972. His second book, \u003ci\u003e The Afterlife\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Lamont Award from the American Academy of Poets in 1976. In 1981, \u003ci\u003eThe Dollmaker's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e was a winner of the Open Competition of the National Poetry Series. Among his other awards were three fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Larry Levis died in 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44339469156589,"sku":"9780822956488","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_58957a16-145c-48df-9cc2-d3d7ec8736f5.jpg?v=1698254026","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/elegy-9780822956488","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}