Larry Levis

David St. John

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 Shakespeare Library award winner David St. John and published 20 years after Levis' death, this collection contains major unpublished works. These include final elegies, brief lyrics and a coda believed to be the last poem Levis wrote ever.

Last Poems

The Darkening Trapeze

Lost Poems, 1972-1997

In the Pines

The Selected Levis (Pitt Poetry Series)

The revised collection of Larry Levis poems selected by David St. John. Each of Levis's books was published to wide critical acclaim, and David St. John has collected together the best of his work from his first five books.

Revised Edition

The Selected Levis

Hush

"For almost twenty years, from the publication of his seminal and highly influential collection of poems Hush to the appearance of the stunning Study for the World's Body: New and Selected Poems, David St. John has been considered one of the most accomplished and innovative of all American poets. Here, for the first time, David St. John has selected from essays and reviews written over the course of his career--about many of the major figures of our time: W. S. Merwin, Philip Levine, Mark Strand, Charles Wright, Donald Hall, Marvin Bell, Donald Justice, Jorie Graham, and dozens of others--and brought them together with six uncompromising and refreshingly candid interviews about the craft of poetry and the state of poetry today. Always passionate about the poets he loves and always provocative in his poetic judgements, David St. John has given us a lucid and exciting volume of prose that all readers of poetry can turn to for both pleasure and instruction."-- Back cover.

Selected Essays, Reviews & Interviews

Where the Angels Come Toward Us

Robert Arnold

Stories and Poems Edited by David St. John

Ploughshares Winter 2005-06

Cole Swensen

Incorporates traditional and experimental styles from the works of more than seventy poets, and includes biographical information and introductory essays on the evolution of the hybrid style.

A Norton Anthology of New Poetry

American Hybrid

David St. John

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