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Title: Elegy by Larry Levis, Philip Levine ISBN: 0-8229-5648-9 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: There is an afterlife, but it is this one.
Comment: If we, the reader, are skeptics and believers of the possibility of art, if we imagine that there is another space language occupies outside of that small room that is our lives, if we are willing to accept ironies and unwillingly acknowledge the tragedy that has always been the recurring theme of the individual, then this book is the past, the present, and future of our desire to live. It's hard to comprehend that there can be anything so miserable as a wish to live forever or anything so beautiful as two old horses named Anastasia and Sandman, but Larry Levis is one of the greatest poets in the American language and culture because of his ability to texture language and improvise narratives so fluid that the reader understand and arrives at that place where all words and all stories begin and end. That place being the middle or the ever-present present that exists when a word is spoken or read and the mind attempts to find the object, the meaning, or the example for what that word represents. Or that ever-present that becomes the present as the story teller remakes the story so that it is again something real and intangible and we experience it because it is there and we do not experience it because it is not there. I don't know how else to explain the book and each poem that invites the reader to examine mortality without the immediate allusion to death but the difficult exercise of life and the ironies it weaves around us. It is impossible to read this book and not feel completely desperate, lost, and in want of every moment of passion we've ever owned and lost to circumstance, fear, the idea of being embarressed in front of our peers. Even the depraved moments we've had in our lives seem worthwhile in the language, story, and voice of this book that is so much of heart of its author that it remains a ghost behind its words. And if you've ever wanted to be bridge your life as an adult to your lost childhood, if you've ever wanted to be invisible, or drive as fast as your car could go, or found yourself talking to a horse, a tree, an empty page that replies without sympathy, without comfort, and even mocks you in its silent and indifferent manners, then this book might remind you of how it felt to have so many desires with nothing but your hands to carry them with.
Rating: 4
Summary: The poet's final collection and his most powerful.
Comment: When Larry Levis, author of The Wrecking Crew and The Widening Spell of Leaves, died unexpectedly in May of 1996, he left behind Elegy, a collecion of twenty poems. Readers will recognize the style of Levis. His poems are labyrinthine and digressive in a way that many readers might find off-putting, but his associative peregrinations do little to detract from the overall power of his work. Readers will find the same themes they have come to expect from Levis: death, ecstasy, and human indifference. Reading Levis' work is like witnessing a car accident--a particularly bad one--your own.
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Title: The Selected Levis by Larry Levis, David St. John ISBN: 0822957930 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Gazer Within by Larry Levis, James Marshall, Andrew Miller, David St John, John Venable ISBN: 0472067184 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Skid by Dean Young ISBN: 0822957809 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Best American Poetry 2003 : Series Editor David Lehman by Yusef Komunyakaa, David Lehman ISBN: 0743203887 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration by Edward Hirsch ISBN: 0156027445 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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