[New-Poetry] Wha? Who? Larry Levis??

[jforjames at aol.com]

Larry Levis was one of the first poets I ever heard read. He was teaching at the University of Missouri at the time, I believe.

He was just making a name for himself and the poem I remember most from that first encounter was "Linnets.

A long, postmo piece that reminds me of Mark Strand's work, now that I reread it. A few years latter he was beginning to 

become famous and I remember hearing him read a poem "My Story in the Late Style of Fire," in which Billie Holiday's 

presence haunts the confessional monologue. I was young, but to me Levis was hip and cool and smart and a real poet.

Finnegan


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Thank you, Edward! ?Printing it now....



Amy


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For those interested, I have written an overview of Larry Levis's poetry that has appeared in _Blackbird_, among other publications:

http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v3n2/nonfiction/byrne_e/recover.htm



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