AnyBook4Less.com	Find the Best Price on the Web Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money Keyword AuthorISBN

Title: The Afterlife by Larry Levis ISBN: 0-88748-279-1 Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95

Your Country USA Canada United Kingdom Australia Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Switzerland Currency AutoUSD CAD GBP EUR AUD CHF Delivery Only cheapest delivery All delivery options Include Used Books Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: Magical and rewarding
Comment: If there's one reason you should buy this book, it should be for the longer poem, "Linnets." Lately I have read many longer/sectioned poems that attempt to collect and organize seemingly unrelated images and scenes into a grand statement of something bigger. These ambitious attempts usually fail, but Levis succeeds "Linnets." Broken up into eleven sections, some are prose and some are free-verse stanzas, some are straight narrative and some are more lyrical. Some of the sections appear to flow in a sequence of event and some sections hit the reader with no warning at all. The reader is aways kept on his toes. ). The objects/characters are complex and do not stand for a singular thing. Linnets are offered as victims of psychotic men with twelve gauge shotguns, creatures capable of judgment and vindication, cursing spirits and "unthankful stuffed little corpses." The brother is portrayed as a violent perpetrator, cold, a man traveling the earth suffering for his crime, a lobotomized drone and disinterested smoking a cigarette. Linnets, rivers, lepers and the brother all sing at different points in the poem. Trees, linnet feathers and a bus all turn black. Like things in real life, everything is full of contradictions, everything has more than one side to it.