The Selected Levis

The Selected Levis
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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780822991069
ISBN-13 : 0822991063
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis The Selected Levis by : Larry Levis

Edited and with an Afterword by David St. John When Larry Levis died suddenly in 1996, Philip Levine wrote that he had years earlier recognized Levis as "the most gifted and determined young poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of my classes. . . . His early death is a staggering loss for our poetry, but what he left is a major achievement that will enrich our lives." Each of his books was published to wide critical acclaim, and David St. John has collected together the best of his work from his first five books: Wrecking Crew (1972), Afterlife (1976), The Dollmaker’s Ghost (1981), Winter Stars (1985) and The Widening Spell of the Leaves (1991). "It is not an exaggeration to say that the death of Larry Levis in 1996—; of a heart attack at 49—; sent a shock wave through the ranks of American poetry. Not only was Levis a good friend to many poets (not simply of his own generation but of many poets older and younger as well), his poetry had become a kind of touchstone for many of us, a source of special inspiration and awe. With Larry Levis’ death came the sense that an American original had been lost. . . . It is not at all paradoxical that he saw both the most intimate expressions of poetry and the grandest gestures of art, of language, as constituting individual acts of courage. One can only hope that, like such courage, Larry Levis’s remarkable poems will continue to live far into our literature."—; from the Afterword, by David St. John

The Gazer Within

The Gazer Within
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015051312174
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Gazer Within by : Larry Levis

A posthumous collection of essays, reviews, and interviews by Larry Levis

The Darkening Trapeze

The Darkening Trapeze
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 113
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ISBN-10 : 9781555977276
ISBN-13 : 1555977278
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis The Darkening Trapeze by : Larry Levis

The empty bar that someone was supposed to swing to him Did not arrive, & so his outstretched flesh itself became A darkening trapeze. The two other acrobats were thieves. --from "Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It" 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.

Winter Stars

Winter Stars
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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages : 105
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ISBN-10 : 9780822991106
ISBN-13 : 0822991101
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Winter Stars by : Larry Levis

Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his life, about losses and acceptances. What emerges is not merely autobiography, but a biography of the reader, a "representative life" of our time.

Levi Strauss & Co.

Levi Strauss & Co.
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 34
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0738569348
ISBN-13 : 9780738569345
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Levi Strauss & Co. by : Lynn Downey

This Way, Charlie

This Way, Charlie
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Publisher : Abrams
Total Pages : 46
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781683358541
ISBN-13 : 1683358546
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis This Way, Charlie by : Caron Levis

From the award-winning team behind Ida, Always comes a story about a friendship that grows between a blind horse and a gruff goat All the animals at the Open Bud Ranch can see that Jack likes keeping his space to himself. But when Charlie arrives, he doesn’t see Jack at all. He’s still getting used to seeing out of only one of his eyes. The two get off to a bumpy start. At first, Jack is anxious and distrustful. But one day, he summons his courage and guides Charlie to his favorite sunlit field: this way, Charlie. And so begins a powerful friendship that will be tested by life’s storms—but will ultimately change each life for the better.

Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea

Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 37
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780152061456
ISBN-13 : 0152061452
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea by : Tony Johnston

Retells, in tall-tale fashion, how Levi Strauss went to California during the Gold Rush, saw the need for a sturdier kind of trouser, and invented jeans.

Levi's Children

Levi's Children
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Publisher : Grove Press
Total Pages : 308
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0802138128
ISBN-13 : 9780802138125
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Levi's Children by : Karl Schoenberger

In a cost-cutting move, Levi Strauss and Company sourced some production to overseas sweatshops. Using the company's painful lesson as a guide, a veteran journalist offers a highly readable assessment of the challenge that the human rights scourge poses to international business.

The Afterlife

The Afterlife
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Publisher : Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Total Pages : 68
Release :
ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106015770750
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis The Afterlife by : Larry Levis

A reissuing of The Afterlife, poetry by Larry Levis.

Levi's

Levi's
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015015211397
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Levi's by : Ed Cray

Traces the history and development of the Levi Strauss Company from a small family-owned business to a publicallyowned international corporation.