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- catalog abstract "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. 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. 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."".
- catalog contributor b11438232.
- catalog contributor b11438233.
- catalog contributor b11438234.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Philip Levine -- The Two Trees -- In 1967 -- The Oldest Living Thing in L.A. -- Anastasia & Sandman -- Photograph: Migrant Worker, Parlier, California, 1967 -- Shiloh -- The Poem Returning as an Invisible Wren to the World -- The Thief in the Painting -- Boy in Video Arcade -- The Cook Grew Lost in his Village, the Village in the Endless Shuffling of Their Cards -- The Smell of the Sea -- Elegy with a Petty Thief in the Rigging -- Elegy for Whatever Had a Pattern in It -- Elegy with the Sprawl of a Wave Inside It -- Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage -- Elegy with a Bridle in Its Hand -- Elegy for Poe with the Music of a Carnival Inside It -- Elegy with an Angel at Its Gate -- Elegy with a Chimneysweep Falling Inside It.".
- catalog description "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."".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "x, 85 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Elegy.".
- catalog identifier "0822940434 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0822956489 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Elegy.".
- catalog isPartOf "Pitt poetry series".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press,".
- catalog relation "Elegy.".
- catalog subject "811/.54 21".
- catalog subject "American poetry 20th century.".
- catalog subject "PS3562.E922 E44 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Philip Levine -- The Two Trees -- In 1967 -- The Oldest Living Thing in L.A. -- Anastasia & Sandman -- Photograph: Migrant Worker, Parlier, California, 1967 -- Shiloh -- The Poem Returning as an Invisible Wren to the World -- The Thief in the Painting -- Boy in Video Arcade -- The Cook Grew Lost in his Village, the Village in the Endless Shuffling of Their Cards -- The Smell of the Sea -- Elegy with a Petty Thief in the Rigging -- Elegy for Whatever Had a Pattern in It -- Elegy with the Sprawl of a Wave Inside It -- Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage -- Elegy with a Bridle in Its Hand -- Elegy for Poe with the Music of a Carnival Inside It -- Elegy with an Angel at Its Gate -- Elegy with a Chimneysweep Falling Inside It.".
- catalog title "Elegy / Larry Levis ; edited with a foreword by Philip Levine.".
- catalog type "text".