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ELEGY
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| By: |
Larry Levis, Philip Levine (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£13.00 |
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£11.05 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0822956489 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780822956488 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 October, 1997 |
| Series: |
Pitt Poetry Series |
| Pages: |
95 |
| Description: |
This collection of poems was written in the six years following the publication of Levis' book "The Widening Spell of the Leaves" and is published posthumously. It continues and extends jazz improvisations and culminates in the elegies written to a world of fragmented culture. |
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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. 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." |
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US |
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University of Pittsburgh Press |
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