Darkening trapeze
Subtitle: last poems
By: Larry Levis ; edited and with an afterword by David St. John
Contributors: St. John, David, 1949- editor
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781555977276
Subjects: American poetry
Description: "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. Edited and with an afterword by David St. John and published twenty years after Levis's death, this collection contains major unpublished works, including final elegies, brief lyrics, and a coda believed to be the last poem Levis wrote, a heart-wrenching poem about his son. The Darkening Trapeze is an astonishing collection by a poet many consider to be among the greatest of late-twentieth-century American poetry" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.