A CONDITION OF THE SPIRIT THE LIFE AND WORK OF URRY LEVIS. Edited by Christopher Buckley and Alexander Long

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1 A CONDITION OF THE SPIRIT THE LIFE AND WORK OF URRY LEVIS Edited by Christopher Buckley and Alexander Long P-R-&S-S EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY PRESS SPOKANE, WASHINGTON

2 xi xv Introduction Eggshell TABLE OF CONTENTS Christopher Buckley and Alexander Long Gerald Stern I. SOME OF THE LIFE 3 Philip Levine 9 and the First-Time, One Time, Irvine Manuscript Day Charles Wright 11 Levis, Larry (Patrick) 13 In Syracuse 17 Gifts and Remembrances 23 What's Wrong With This Picture Diane Wakoski Stephen Dunn B.H. Boston Marcia Southwick 31 After the Obsession with Some Beloved Figure: An Interview with > Leslie Kelen 51 Turned Into Paper: A Memory of and Re-reading of "Sensationalism" 57 Looking Up Kathy Fagan Jim Zola 61 "Back Then" Reading the Poems of Nancy Eimers

3 65 's "Spots oftime" 69 The Good Ship Larry 75 But We Have the Books 79 Elegy To Elegy 87 An Afterword 91 Gary Short Gerald Costanzo Ed Ochester Doren Robbins David St. John Peter Everwine II. LARRY LEVIS ON POETRY A Divinity In Its Fraying Fact Philip Levine & Walter Bargen: A Conversation Walter Bargen 133 War as Parable and War as Fact: Herbert and Forche The Anatomy of Saturday Night Review of Four Young Poets for New Letters 171 Introduction to Kevin Hearle's, Each Thing We Know Is Changed Because We Know It

4 177 Not Life So Proud To Be Life: Snodgrass, Rothenberg, Bell, and the Counter-Revolution 207 Waiting For the End of the World: Snodgrass and The Fiihrer Bunker 237 Two Letters to The Reaper 241 Poems That Mean? Poems That Are?: at Warren Wilson College...January, Roll Call: The Many Lives of 265 An Interview with Robyn Selman Michael White III. RESPONSE TO THE WORK 285 : Johnny Dominguez.A Letter Dave Smith 303 Elegy: An Appreciation 333 The Unweary Poet 337 from "Experienced Bards" 341 The Condition of Grief 353 Winter Stars Christopher Buckley Jack Anderson Stephen Sandy Derek McKown Publishers Weekly

5 355 s Translations of Kijma Hajime 359 from "Three Mannerists" 367 from "Blessings and Rain" Alexander Long Tony Whedon Peter Stitt 369 The Lost Prose Poems of 377 Black Freckles Christopher Buckley Publishers Weekly 379 Image & History in the Poems of Alexander Long 395 What Does It Mean, American? The Poetry of 401 Heart In the Presence of Oblivion: 's The Widening Spell of the Leaves 405 The Margin as Frontier: The Widening Spell of the Line 413 The Widening Spell of the Leaves 415 Democratic Growth in "The Widening Spell of The Leaves" Robert Dana Sheila Bender Ellen Smith James Harms Fred Dings 421 Beautiful Polarities 427 #10 Overlooked Poet, Nance Van Winckel Alan DeNiro

6 from"survivalist Selves" Elegy Elegy The Poem as Johnny Dominguez Elegy Suite: Three Silent Diamonds Flight and Arrival On The End of Romantic Authority in 's Elegy from "Where The Boys Are" David Wojahn Jacqueline Osherow Eliot Wilson William Olsen Paul Zimmer J. Randy Marshall Eric Gudas Tony Hoagland M.L.Williams Sandra M. Gilbert 537 A Whitman Manque for the Twenty-first On The Selected Levis 543 The Wish To Be Swept Clean: The Poetry of 563 A Quiet Genius: The Selected Levis Century: David Kirby D.WFenza M.L. Schuldt

7 567 To Recover The Poet: s Elegy, The Selected Levis, and The Gazer Within 597 Reading The Selected Levis Edward Byrne David Young IV. EPILOGUE: 617 Piazza Navona 619 Index 645 Acknowledgments 649 Contributors