The Widening Spell of the Leaves

The author of collection book of poems has contributed frequently to "American Poetry Review", "Antaeus" and "Field". His previous books include "Wrecking Crew", which won the Lamont award of the Academy of American Poets, the "Dollmaker's Ghost", and "Winter Stars

About the author

Larry Levis was born in Fresno, California, in 1946. His first book of poems, Wrecking Crew, won the United States Award from the International Poetry Forum, and was published in the Pitt Poetry Series in 1972. His second book, The Afterlife, won the Lamont Award from the American Academy of Poets in 1976. In 1981, The Dollmaker's Ghost 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Larry Levis
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.1991
• EAN: 9780822954545
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-5454-5
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 163 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies