The Widening Spell of the Leaves

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The result is a book of discursive meditations that will amply reward the reader. Part travelogue, part pilgrimage in which the shrines remain hidden until they are recognized later, Larry Levis’s startling and complex fifth book of poems is about the enslavement to desire for personal freedom, and the awareness of its price.

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<b>Larry Levis</b>was born in Fresno, California, in 1946. His first book of poems,<i>Wrecking Crew</i>, won the United States Award from the International Poetry Forum, and was published in the Pitt Poetry Series in 1972. His second book,<i>The Afterlife</i>, won the Lamont Award from the American Academy of Poets in 1976. In 1981,<i>The Dollmaker's Ghost</i> was a winner of the Open Competition of the National Poetry Series. Among his other awards were three fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Larry Levis died in 1996.

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