TY  - GEN
T1  - Elegy
T2  - Pitt poetry series.
A1  - Levis, Larry
A2  - Levine, Philip, 1928-2015
LA  - English
PP  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
YR  - 1997
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn605261171
AB  - A few days before his death in 1996, Larry Levis mentioned to his friend and former instructor Philip Levine that he had "an all-but-completed manuscript" of poems
AB  - The poems were written in the six years following publication of his previous book, The Widening Spell of the Leaves, and continue and extend the jazz improvisations on themes that gave those poems their resonance. There are poems of sudden stops and threats from the wild: an opossum halts traffic and snaps at pedestrians in posh west Los Angeles; a migrant worker falls victim to the bites of two beautiful black widow spiders; horses starve during a Russian famine; a thief, sitting in the rigging of Columbus's ship, contemplates his work in the New World.
AB  - The collection culminates in the elegies written to a world in which culture fragments; in which the beasts of burden - the horses, the migrant workers - are worked toward death; a world in which "Love's an immigrant, it shows itself in its work./ It works for almost nothing"; a world in which "you were no longer permitted to know, / Or to decide for yourself, /Whether there was an angel inside you, or whether there wasn't."
OP  - 85
CN  - PS3562.E922 E44 1997
SN  - 9780822990987
SN  - 0822990989
SN  - 0822940434
SN  - 9780822940432
SN  - 0822956489
SN  - 9780822956488
KW  - American poetry : 20th century.
KW  - Poésie américaine : 20e siècle.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Poetry.
KW  - POETRY : American : General.
KW  - American poetry
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Poetry (Poetic Works By One Author)
KW  - Poetry
ER  -