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Born in 1946 / Died in 1996 / United States / English

Poems by Larry Levis

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Larry Levis

... my clothes, my car with a full tank ...

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Those Graves In Rome

... And not die. And maybe we should have joined hands at that ...

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The Widening Spell Of Leaves

... --for my brotherOnce, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill ...

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Fish

...   I could go quietly as a star turning over and over ...

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As It Begins With A Brush Stroke On A Snare Drum

... of it falling And thinning until it is gossamer, a filament untying itself ...

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Prose Poem

... rider approaching with a tense face, who can’t see that this horse has white roses instead of eyes ...

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Winter Stars

... My father simply went in & ate lunch, & then, as always, ...

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The Clearing Of The Land

... For a past; Ancestors of stumps and fallen trees and ...

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Readings In French

... 3. In either case, soon you are riding alone on a subway ...

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The Future Of Hands

... The man selling illegal human hair from Mexico, ...

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The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.

... A light steel net to snare it with, someone who hoped  ...

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The Map

...  * You were bent over the sink, washing your stockings ...

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The Poet at Seventeen

... And inside, the adults with their cocktails before dinner,  ...

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Signs

... long grin. And when there are no messages  ...

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Childhood Ideogram

... s driving. On winter evenings, the lights would come on earlier ...