Memory does not keep a neat calendar. Larry Levis lets it wander until a private life begins to resemble our own.
Readical Key Points
- Revised edition of a major collection of love poems and elegies
- Introduced by poet Paisley Rekdal
- Explores childhood, family, loss, acceptance, and the uneasy work of self-knowledge
- Paperback, 120 pages, in the Pitt Poetry Series
In Winter Stars, Levis moves through memory with a voice that can sound conversational even as it gathers grief, landscape, family history, and moral pressure. The poems question a life rather than arranging it into a clean explanation. Fathers, childhood, squandered love, and the ordinary details that survive loss return as living presences.
This revised edition restores a collection admired for the way its long, meditative lines move outward from autobiography and then turn back toward the reader. It is a strong entry point for anyone new to Levis and a welcome return for readers who value poetry that thinks in motion. The poems do not ask memory to behave. They ask what it still has to teach us.
About the Author
Larry Levis was an American poet whose honors included the Lamont Award, a National Poetry Series prize, three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He died in 1996.
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