Winter Stars

Zusatztext

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<i>Winter Stars</i>, 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.

Autorenportrait

<b>Larry Levis 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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